As we approach the sixth anniversary of 9/11, we're bending over backwards not to offend those who want to slaughter us.
No way to fight a war.
A WEIRD WAY TO WAGE WAR
What's been most inexplicable is the urge to accommodate the enemy. It's almost as if we've felt guilty about our ability to prevail and want to even the sides, handicapping ourselves and giving the enemy every edge.
Arab Muslims perpetrated the 9/11 strike, yet in its wake:
* Many of us focused on protecting the rights of . . . Arab and Muslim Americans.
* New York City, which suffered enormously, suddenly decided it needed a public school to cater to these groups and to glorify the culture that produced the movement behind the attack. (The school opened this week in Brooklyn; we can only wonder what its lessons about 9/11 will be like.)
* Mayor Bloomberg rose to defend the free-speech rights of a Muslim prison chaplain and to safeguard his sensitive job, even after the chaplain called the White House's occupants the world's "greatest terrorists," claimed Jews control the media and insisted Muslims were being tortured in Manhattan jails.
* Ground Zero was seen as an ideal spot for the International Freedom Center, which (had it not been killed by public outrage) would've been open to debates on whether America got what it deserved.
* A proposed memorial to the U.S. heroes of Flight 93 - who fought their hijackers and crashed in a Pennsylvania field - took the shape of a crescent, a core Islamic symbol.
True, some of these ideas were more kooky than dangerous. But what about when a paper as widely read as The New York Times:
* Sees fit to divulge, on its front page, U.S. national-security surveillance and counter-terror programs?
* Wages an endless battle on behalf of terror prisoners?
* Slams law-enforcement agencies, such as the NYPD, for monitoring potential terrorist groups on the Web and filming them at public events?
* Launches - along with other liberal media, leftist anti-war groups and elected officials like Sens. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy - a nonstop drive to convince folks that fighting threats, such as what was seen in Iraq, is misguided and hopeless?
Certainly on Sept. 12, 2001, few Americans would have envisioned:
* The hairsplitting debates we've had about interrogation methods, confining terror suspects and even their comfort levels at facilities like Gitmo.
* The premature release of detainees, who soon show up on the battlefield to kill again.
Few, indeed, would've expected that, in less than six years' time, the national focus would shift, as it has, from how to win the War on Terror to how to pull the troops from Iraq so as to best score points in a presidential race.
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