(Cross-posted from Zero Sheep, originally published 9/11/2009):
At least until it becomes unfashionable for pseudo-intellectuals to care more about their country and their fellow citizens than shoddy moral equivalence and trendy anti-Americanism.
Whether or not a person thinks 9/11 should be remembered and commemorated makes a pretty good litmus test I think — not of a person’s politics, but of their character. If someone spouts some variation on the theme that we should ‘put it behind us,’ then I can be pretty sure that person is shallow and self-centered, unable or unwilling to accept that life and reality are bigger than any one person or poisonous, delusional notion of universal peace and brotherhood.
Bad things happen, and they happen to good people.
Bad people are out there — genuinely bad, not just ‘misunderstood.’
Evil exists.
On this day more than any other, for Americans, it is impossible to both be honest and to embrace moral equivalence. The people that are annoyed by the remembrances and want to ‘move on’ should look deep inside themselves and ask themselves why.
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As an aside, but not unrelated, I highly recommend this look back at that day by New Yorker Allahpundit, now writing for Hot Air, as compiled from his Twitter stream by Andy Levy.
