drflykilla74:
For all cedarford supposed knowledge of what does and does not constitute a hero, he displays an appalling ignorance of proper decorum and good manners. He spits on the graves of the dead who can’t respond to his insults–hardly heroic.
Again, another person presumes to be Enforcer for the victim families. Any questioning of any assertion or demand on society by a “victims family” breaches proper decorum and good manners? So the healthy thing is to be silent and – for example – acquiesce to all demands for “free” taxpayer-provided AIDs medicine from grieving lovers and families?
And questioning if all government employees globally who wear a uniform and die – are 100% Heroes? That is “spitting on the grave”?
Please.
You are just another tool brainwashed by the recent “Hero Narrative” into Fascistic worship of the organs of state security and mindlessly renaming all victims “heroes’ to invest their lives with more meaning.
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The MO of the hijackers on all four planes was the same. They killed the pilots, you jackass. You think these men sat their and allowed these people to commandeer their cockpits? You know nothing about aviation..
Actually I do, and on previous hijackings, pilots were instructed to allow hijackers to commandeer the cockpits without resistance – on the assumption that doing exactly as asked was the “safest thing.” That such behavior effectively rendered crew into sheep or at worse, actively enforcing the passengers to remain docile, calm and seated – does not make them cowards. It does not make them heroes either.
Nor does the fact that the last pilot was killed w/o warning when the time came by the hijacker team as easily as a sheep is slaughtered – does not make either a sheep or such a pilot a hero merely from being dispatched.
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I suppose he agrees with Susan Sontag, who, a few days after 9/11, objected to the hijackers being called “cowards.”
Well, these were the “cowards” who faced 70-120 “heroes” on each Flight and only failed in one mission. They voluntered for high risk, danger, and about half knew they were facing disgraceful capture if they failed, certain death if they suceeded.
It is like calling Kamikaze pilots “cowardly”.
The stupidity of the “American heroes” vs. the “cowards that hijacked the Religion of Peace” Narrative of almost 7 years ago was effectively debunked by spec ops in Afghanistan and Marines in Fallujah and their leaders in Congressional testimony who called the AQ fighters “unbelievably brave, dangerous, and committed men.” None of the guys I know who were in Afghanistan or the nephew I have that was on the front lines in Ramadi and lost 1/3rd of his platoon called the Jihadis heroes. But none called this lethal, adept foe “cowardly” either.
