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Bush and 15 Summers since the West Should have Known It’s Enemy

By Erik Zimerman On September 11, 2016 · Add Comment · In Against the Wind

It’s been 15 summers since much of the western world realized that it was under attack from an enemy others had long known. Since then, frequency of such attacks (though usually less “grandiose”) across the western world have drastically increased, actually becoming commonplace. The impact their perpetrators and supporters have long-term on western civilization dwarves that of the 9/11 Attacks. Rather than having made progress on that front at the least (since we sure haven’t in anything else), the reverse is true. Today’s western leadership cannot even name this enemy, even though the administration in place at the time identified it immediately (or “almost” identified it). At the time, the USA and the western world was destined to be fortunate indeed, to have had the steady hands of George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld at the helm of the free world, and those of Rudy Giuliani guiding the city under attack. The next generations of leaders, though quick to second guess, criticize and claim what they and their constituents are or ought to be “entitled” to… are shadows of these men, who denied the enemy the immediate panic he desired, steadied the ship, identified friend and foe, and lunged out our [...]

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