Krugman: This is our day of national shame, or something

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I returned home after the Patriot Day celebration yesterday and checked my e-mail — and found a significant amount of outrageous outrage over Paul Krugman’s blog post for today at the New York Times.  It reportedly dropped off the site for a little while, but if so it reappeared by the time I had the chance to read it.  What did Krugman say that was so outrageous?  Well, for one thing, he referred to George Bush and Rudy Giuliani as “fake heroes” and called the anniversary of 9/11 “an occasion for shame”:

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

Yes, that’s a nasty partisan attack on a day when most of us try to frame our commemoration of the anniversary in non-partisan terms.  Our radio station here in the Twin Cities is unabashedly conservative, yet we were proud to welcome two members of Minnesota’s delegation to Capitol Hill for our observance at the state capitol: Rep. John Kline (R) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D).  Both spoke movingly of their memories of the event and what it meant for them and for all Americans.  We also had a variety of speakers from the military and first-responder communities who didn’t offer any partisan views on the event, either.  That’s a classy way to deal with 9/11 observances, and it’s worth noting that President Barack Obama shared the stage with President George W. Bush for today’s Ground Zero commemoration as well.

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Krugman cannot separate in his PC, multicultural mind what happened after 9/11 from the attacks on 9/11/01 which are being commemorated today.
What a sloppy mind.
I guess he is also unable to separate the attack at Pearl Harbor (and our glass bottomed memorial there) with all of what happened during WWII and afterwards?
What brain-impairing habit causes this particular type of time frame blindness?

Our shame comes from liberal idiots like Krugman. He is in denial of the truth. Truth is Muslims killed Americans on 9/11 in the name of their god (note little g). The once that didn’t go to hell on the planes those days danced in the streets and on the graves of innocent Americans!! I hate Muslims and their god!! Prove me wrong!!

No the liberal idiot Krugman needs to be ashamed of himself. but liberals are incapable of feeling shame and are demonstrating common sense. Its liberals like him who have fought so hard, and unfortunately so successful for the terrorists who killed thousands of their fellow Americans. Him and his ilk have kept the terrorists from receiving justice at Gitmo, and from Gitmo accepting new terrorists. Ten years later and all Obi can say is “maybe a trial in a couple of more years”. But read his work and you will see that he thinks Obi is the next best thing to sliced bread. So is it any wonder if he probably thinks that 9/11 is our fault as well as all the other terrorists attacks? That we deserved it? Like so many of his liberal friends do. That we all need to hold deep a seated guilt for offending the muslim nations, their culture, religion, and values. It gets so old with liberals, it always us Americans who are and always have been the bad guys and gals.

I think Krugman knows he is a wash up turd. I wonder if he is of the many [wacko’s] who have a deep seated neurological “need – obsession- craving” for attention. Or if his problem is associated with extreme neurological [liberal] brainwashing… Or, the most shameful of all, that he does this to America and fellow Americans for the sake of the almighty dollar?

Rumor, just a hot rumor, that Paul Krugman is having sex with Rosie O’Donnell.

Set Krugman loose in a sailboat about 5 miles off of Somalia.

Why is this Krugman allowed to inhale our air?

I’ve come to realize that the more information you receive, the more you get the other “rest of the story”, as Paul Harvey used to put it. With the dominance of the news media by the conservative right and the conservative left, made for consumption by the conservative right and conservative left, the real story about 911 gets buried beneath the fold.

After neutralizing Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, with about 400 Special Forces troops, we turned our interests to the natural resources of Iraq–and the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the displacement of a million innocent Iraqi citizens. (It takes more than 400 troops to inflict millions of foreign casualties.)

And now we’re doing the same thing in Afghanistan. Believe it or not–although their religion is an abomination to American Fundamentalist Christianity–they are people too (they have families, they have needs, they love too). In this respect–the trading of lives for natural resources–or potential control of oil–Krugman is right.

I think Liberal1 might want to look at just “who” has bought and paid for our presidents and media for several decades……..and then he might not wonder why we are attacking muslims forever and ever.

@David Brickner:
Are you one of those ZOG or Bilderberger believers?

I ask because we don’t like anti-Semites or loony conspiracy theorists running around this site. .

@Liberal1 (objectivity): Sir, I disagreed with the wars for one simple reason. I was and am still concerned that we would not go far enough. That in our instant gratification society the American people would grow angry and tried that the people we were and are fighting for would not just accept democracy in a pre-set amount of time. And we would then leave. It takes decades to change human behavior in the best of conditions. But in the middle east we are dealing with a mindset that has been around for thousands of years. Do we need to have a permanent presence in the ME. Yes. Both China, and Russia have plans for the ME as well. Not counting rogue nations like Iran and Syria. resources are a major part of those plans, and rightly so. Like it or not. The winners in the ME and in the long run will be the countries with vision, and perseverance to be there as a friend to those countries to stop radical islamic states from forming, and to help new democracies get on their feet. And if we get to share their resources in return, then why not us? There is a line in an old movie, Three Days of the Condor I think were the bad CIA guy tells the good and enlightened liberal the following ” Look around you, when these people are freezing in their homes, and and walking because they have no gas, do you really think that they will care where it came from, and or how we got it.?” They want. Period. Is it right? Whos going to debate right or wrong when they are freezing? Or have no way to work. I love to live in reality, but will be the first one to admit that at times it can suck bigtime.

@Common Sense: I wouldn’t dream of trying to prove you wrong. I have no doubt that you hate Muslims. The rest of your post though …. You say that “The once [sic] that didn’t go to hell on the planes those [sic} days danced in the streets and on the graves of innocent Americans!!” I don’t recall that. (Maybe you can remind me of when and where it happened.) What I do remember are the outpourings of grief and sympathy from muslims and muslim organizations around the world. The BBC reported, for example, that on the night of the attack “vast crowds” gathered to hold candlelight vigils in the streets of Tehran, while at the city’s football stadium sixty thousand spectators observed a minute of silence as a gesture of respect for the victims. I’m curious: do you hate those Muslims too? How about their kids? Or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed during our occupation of their country? Hate all of them too? Here’s why I ask: those 19 hate-filled hijackers with the box cutters … weren’t they applying the same kind of broad brush hatred to us that you’re using with Muslims? Just asking.

@AJ Hill:

You say that “The once [sic] that didn’t go to hell on the planes those [sic} days danced in the streets and on the graves of innocent Americans!!” I don’t recall that. (Maybe you can remind me of when and where it happened.)

Here ya go:

Just to add to your YouTube, Aye… since Arafat had officially condemned the attacks on behalf of the PA, they threatened the journalists who wanted to use photos of celebrations both in Nablus and East Jerusalem. Palestinians in Lebanese refuge camps were also celebrating. (the last two photos on this BBC report)

Most of the Muslim leaders around the world did condemn the attacks… except for two. One was a Hamas leader who said: “”no doubt this is a result of the injustice the U.S. practices against the weak in the world.” .

Another one who did finger pointing in support was Saddam Hussein. Later he tried to recant and express some sympathy… but ya know, those first instincts and reactions are generally the most honest ones. LOL

However when it came to a nationality that seemed to hold the monopoly on celebrations, the Palestinians were at the top of the list.

But the generalization of Islam isn’t anything new on this blog. The heated battles of last summer, as well as those that tend to arise, always brings out the divides amongst the community here. Wordsmith, Aye and myself have fought against this trend to lump all Muslims into the category of those who hate western culture. Much as we have tried to convey that American Muslims assimilate in US culture more readily, the disagreements still arise. It’s apparent that most Muslims who move to western countries to escape harsh, fundamentalist Islamic law do not do so in order to change those countries into what they just left.

Muslims, just like conservatives and liberals, are all one of a kind with varying degrees of caution and distrust for infidels. They do not fit into a one-size-fits-all category, much as many would like to believe.

Now… let the thumbs down counter click up… I’m used to it when ever we hit this subject. LOL

@MataHarley: It’s nice to be able to complement one of your posts unreservedly. I agree with you 100% and admire the even handed, graceful way you’ve presented the facts. Hatred respects neither boundaries nor nationality and ought to be confronted wherever it occurs.

And thank you for your gracious observation, @AJ Hill. Save for a deep divide as a starting point as to Constitutional structure of the country, I suspect there are a few arenas where we actually come to some common point. As I said, we are all a potpourri of beliefs… political mutts, so to speak.

If you hang around this community long enough, you’ll find that most of us are fiscally conservative, but not the social pariahs, bent on further trampling on the downtrodden, you believe us to be. Since we’d like every one to gain whatever success, wealth and happiness they desire, the differences usually lie in the way to accomplish that.