Today, I bought a copy of Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens' memoir, and opened
it to a random page. This is what I found, on the damage done to the
Pentagon on 911:

"Should I now also feel protective of that other behemoth, the Pentagon?
Well, into its outer walls had been flown a nice acquaintance of mine, a
feisty Republican lady named Barbara Olson. She had managed to get her
husband on her cellphone to say she had been hijacked, and to him had fallen the task of telling her that she was mistaken about that. She was not a hostage. There were not going to be any 'demands.' She was to be murdered
in order that others, too, might die. As I tried to picture her reaction, I hit a barrier that my imagination was unable to cross."

A few pages later - on the jumpers, who haunt me to this day.

"'Look, teacher,' The New York Times reported a child shrilling as the Twin Towers were becomming pyres: 'the birds are on fire.' Here was a sweet, infantile rationalization of an uncommon sight; human beings who had
hesitated too long between the alternatives of jumping to their deaths or
being burned alive, and who were thus jumping *and* burning, an from much
more than 300 feet. Nothing I have witnessed since, including Abu Ghrain
and Guanatanamo and various scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq, has erased those initial images of the deep and sick relationship between murder and suicide,
or of the wolfish faces of those who gloated over the horror."

What a nice departure from the dregs here to have a man of the left with compassion for those who died that day - even the reviled Barbara Olson gets
a kind notice.

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Let's try this again...

Today, I bought a copy of Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens' memoir, and opened
it to a random page. This is what I found, on the damage done to the
Pentagon on 911:

"Should I now also feel protective of that other behemoth, the Pentagon?
Well, into its outer walls had been flown a nice acquaintance of mine, a
feisty Republican lady named Barbara Olson. She had managed to get her
husband on her cellphone to say she had been hijacked, and to him had fallen the task of telling her that she was mistaken about that. She was not a hostage. There were not going to be any 'demands.' She was to be murdered
in order that others, too, might die. As I tried to picture her reaction, I hit a barrier that my imagination was unable to cross."

A few pages later - on the jumpers, who haunt me to this day.

"'Look, teacher,' The New York Times reported a child shrilling as the Twin Towers were becomming pyres: 'the birds are on fire.' Here was a sweet, infantile rationalization of an uncommon sight; human beings who had
hesitated too long between the alternatives of jumping to their deaths or
being burned alive, and who were thus jumping *and* burning, an from much
more than 300 feet. Nothing I have witnessed since, including Abu Ghrain
and Guanatanamo and various scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq, has erased those initial images of the deep and sick relationship between murder and suicide,
or of the wolfish faces of those who gloated over the horror."

What a nice departure from the dregs here to have a man of the left with compassion for those who died that day - even the reviled Barbara Olson gets
a kind notice.

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On 08/11/2010 05:51 PM, Stan Hardegree -> Ed Hulett wrote:

Today, I bought a copy of Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens' memoir, and opened
it to a random page. This is what I found, on the damage done to the Pentagon on 911:

Watch the usual suspect attack Hitchens.

"Should I now also feel protective of that other behemoth, the Pentagon? Well, into its outer walls had been flown a nice acquaintance of mine, a feisty Republican lady named Barbara Olson. She had managed to get her husband on her cellphone to say she had been hijacked, and to him had fallen
the task of telling her that she was mistaken about that. She was not a hostage. There were not going to be any 'demands.' She was to be murdered in order that others, too, might die. As I tried to picture her reaction,

I

hit a barrier that my imagination was unable to cross."

And then you have the lowest of the low cheering her death merely because she wrote a book unfavorable to the Clintons.

A few pages later - on the jumpers, who haunt me to this day.

"'Look, teacher,' The New York Times reported a child shrilling as the

Twin

Towers were becomming pyres: 'the birds are on fire.' Here was a sweet, infantile rationalization of an uncommon sight; human beings who had hesitated too long between the alternatives of jumping to their deaths or being burned alive, and who were thus jumping *and* burning, an from much more than 300 feet. Nothing I have witnessed since, including Abu Ghrain and Guanatanamo and various scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq, has erased those
initial images of the deep and sick relationship between murder and suicide,
or of the wolfish faces of those who gloated over the horror."

And the idiot left are now supporting the construction of a Mosque just a short
walk from Ground Zero. A Mosque that will be a magnet for Islamists from around
the world to attend while gloating of their "victory."

What a nice departure from the dregs here to have a man of the left with compassion for those who died that day - even the reviled Barbara Olson gets
a kind notice.

A person like Hitchens wouldn't be welcome among the idiot left who haunt FIDO.

Ed

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