Five Years and What’s Changed?
September 11, 2006
Five years and what’s changed? Not much. Air travel has gotten even more exasperating. Many still live – if not in fear – than with anxiety about the next attack.
This is not a war that is going to end soon as long as religious perverts exist and try to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction. As long as they were nursing their grievances on some sand dune, we could care less. But nuclear, biological and chemical weapons mean we have to pay attention.
The worst thing that could happen is for the West to let it’s guard down and allow more of them into our countries to build mosques and schools that seek to undermine us. That should be obvious. We didn’t allow Nazis to immigrant during World War II. But political correctness is strong and many would rather try to be liked than to do what is necessary.
I hope on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 we haven’t been hit again because we were more committed than they are. I wonder and worry, not for myself as much as my children and grandchildren.
Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C.
Originally published September 11, 2006.
