Discussion on 9/11 and Terrorism

New rule, since it's the 25th anniversary of 9/11,

and since for

25 years we've been kept relatively safe from anything close to another

9/11, how about a hand for the Americans who

made that happen?

Because

it didn't just happen. There was a war on terror, and we won.

And yet so much has changed since 9/11.

For example, back then, we were against the terrorists.

Really, no cap. Now-

Now, a lot of media outlets don't even want you

to say the T

word. On the 20th anniversary, four American journalism

associations put out guidance that said that terrorism should

only be used in quotes because it's emotionally and politically

loaded.

Yeah, so is the World Cup, but we don't put soccer in quotes.

Really? We, we can't anymore just say out loud who the

bad guys were

that morning, those 19 hijackers?

They shared something. Oh, let's call it a worldview.

And it wasn't astrology.

But somehow over time, we've decided not to harp on that,

the whole

business about who wanted us dead and why. Let's not put a name on it.

When it comes to terrorist attacks, please, there are very fine people on both

sides.

Canadian state TV told its reporters, "Do not refer to the

September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks." No?

Even though the very definition of terrorism is using violence against

civilians to pursue ideological goals? What should we call it then?

Unruly passengers?

A wrong turn taken at the Chrysler Building?

Why not just say the planes and the towers got into a fight?

I mean, after all, as the BBC advised its reporters,

using the word terrorist can be a, quote, "Barrier rather than

an aid to understanding." You know what's really a barrier to

understanding? Lying.

Back in 2001 after the attack, I said this.

Political correctness itself

is something we can no longer afford.

Feelings are gonna get hurt so that actual people

won't.

Well, it didn't last. I mean my show.

As for the idea of ditching political correctness and actually being honest,

that never even got off the ground.

After 9/11, there was a big debate, was this a clash of

civilizations? It was, and it still is.

Not between Muslims and Christians, no reasonable person was saying that,

but radical Islamism versus Western liberalism,

yes, that's a real thing. Fighting people who hate freedom of

religion, and hate homosexuals, and hate the idea of

women as equal and free humans. How did liberals wind

up on their side?

And many did. One in five young Americans now has a

positive view of Osama Bin Laden. He's like Luigi

Mangione in a turban.

Y- you hear it in a lot of places now, that the worst thing about

9/11 was innocent Muslims came under suspicion.

Yeah, where that did happen, it's wrong, but the worst thing about

9/11 was 3,000 people got roasted at the office.

But the prevailing view of so many young people is that, well, come on,

we're the worst country ever. So if someone attacks us,

it can't be all bad.

That certainly wasn't the attitude 25 years ago.

In fact, I know a guy whose show got canceled just

for saying the terrorists

weren't cowards.

And... And that guy was right. They weren't cowards.

But I'll tell you who is.

Democratic Party politicians, and I'll tell you why.

Because nowhere has this moral confusion become more

obvious than in a place called Gaza,

a little strip of land that was not part of the original Israel, but

which they won in a war launched against them, but then gave back.

Gave back as a peace gesture. Did they tell you that part on

TikTok, kids?

And the people who run Gaza, Hamas, who you celebrate as a

liberation movement, but are really a terrorist mafia gang just

like

the one that terrorizes Haiti,

only ever used it to stage attacks on Israel.

I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said, "I

know enough to know this is a genocide." Actually,

you don't know shit.

It's not...

It's not a genocide. It's a counterattack in a war,

a war that's

been waged on Israel since 1948 based on the

ridiculous premise that Jews don't belong in the one place on

Earth they are indigenous, and indisputably their ancestral

homeland. Hey, geniuses, they're the Indians in this

scenario.

Ariana Grande reposted that starving people to death is a red

line. Well, who would know better about starving but-

But make no mistake, any famine that happened in Gaza is because

Hamas stole the food, just like the Haitian gangs do.

Israel ran 94,000 trucks carrying over

1.8 million tons of aid into Gaza, and enabled over

36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abro-

abroad, which you TikTok historians might be

interested l-

to learn, are not things countries usually do for

their enemies during a war,

and certainly not what you would do if you were trying for a genocide.

Gaza equals genocide is a lie,

an easily provable lie, and the fact that so many prominent

Democrats go along with it is, to me, the party's worst

moment since they undid Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Democrats are policing their candidates really hard

on this issue. Say it. Say it's a genocide.

Say it.

The genocide in Gaza, and I think your policy on the genocide in

Gaza- You know, with Republicans, there's something you have to say even

though you know it's bullshit. You have to say Trump won in 2020.

This is the Democrats' version of that.

But you-

But words do have actual meanings.

Cide means to kill. Fratricide, kill

your brother. Homicide, kill your fellow human.

Suicide, kill yourself. Genocide, kill or

try to kill an entire people. You can't just change the definition of

genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people,

including civilians, die. That's every war.

There have been about 73,000 deaths in Gaza, about

3% of the population. Tragic. Not

genocide. Not close. There were 3 million Jews in

Poland before World War II. After,

45,000.

That's genocide. If you're one of the many people these

days

asking, "This explosion of anti-Semitism around

the world

that we see, where is it coming from?" This.

This is where it's coming from. Because if you really think someone is committing

genocide, of course you have full permission to hate

them, and

history shows, for whatever reason, when it comes to hating the Jews,

people don't need a lot of permission.