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October 12, 2005
Five years -- and still a gaping hole
I have not forgotten the U.S.S. Cole. I just can't believe it's been five years. I remember talking about it at the time when I ate dinner with a World War II Navy veteran. He said that the attack on a Navy ship was a clear act of war, and he exploded with rage. I won't repeat what he said about the president (or what he said we should do to Yemen in retaliation, but it didn't matter to him whether the "links to terrorism" could be proven). Above all, he pointed out that Americans seemed to have forgotten the sacrifices that were made by his generation during that war. (The guy is still alive, but 90 years old, and very frail.) Anyway, there was something about that unforgettably gaping hole that resonated with me.
In remembering the Cole, Michelle Malkin wrote this link-filled post plus a column which I quoted earlier, but which also had this to say about the Cole: Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.That's the problem. There's still a gaping hole. A complete inability to see reality when it stares them in the face. What would it take? (9/11 apparently didn't convince them either.) For more detail on the Cole, read Sisyphus's post. Or Smash. Or Blackfive. Or Baldilocks. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not the linker I should be. (Even this meager linking is out of the ordinary for me -- but so was that attack, and I just think it should be remembered, even late at night when I'd rather zone out.) I have to remember, and that's because I know that there are people who think we can still be made to lose this war -- if only we can be made to forget.
More below. The lamentable fact that so many Americans still don't accept the fact that we're at war makes me think that the country is moving backwards in time -- towards the shocking unpreparedness highlighted by the gaping hole in the U.S.S. Cole -- and so I thought this was as good a place as any to supply the text of Ayman al Zawahiri's letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, which follows. In the name of God, praise be to God, and praise and blessings be upon the Messenger of God, his family, his Companions, and all those who follow him. ................................. An official PDF file has been made available here. posted by Eric on 10.12.05 at 11:49 PM |
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"I have to remember, and that's because I know that there are people who think we can still be made to lose this war -- if only we can be made to forget."
Absolutely true. And I, too, will never forget. We are at War. And we must fight to win. Our very survival is at stake.