It is the reminding that we’ve failed to think through the aims, paths, and continuous motives of our enemies that makes “The Path To 9/11″ salient and arresting.

We were warned. We ignored the warnings. And in this actually surprisingly good mini-series, we are reminded of the ironic death of John O’Neill in the WTC collapse: he worried, foresaw, and acted to prevent our future from turning worse before we would heed the call.

Better late than never. This is why I will buy “The Path To 9/11″ DVD: to share our history and bring the benighted into the fold, which Roger despairs over elsewhere. Perhaps he shouldn’t. Perhaps moving pictures are worth a million words. He used to believe it

Perfect, being the enemy of the good, freezes us into silence. ABC Path to 9/11
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This hits the nail right on its head. God it hurts to approvingly quote a left wing blog?but the left knows how to treat allies.

MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics What?s also new is how Disney got no backup at all from the right-wing. No Republicans in office came to the company?s defense, the RNC offered no online petition, and there was little to no internet organizing on behalf of ABC?s film. Virtually no right-wing pundits defended the network, or the film in any meaningful way. The open disloyalty to right-wing allies is a really bad decision on the part of the right, since it means that if you back the right-wing, it?s not clear that they will back you. In such a situation, talented people considering a movement career will simply say ?I don?t need this shit, I?m going to go make money in the private sector?.

We finally have the perfect vehicle to tell the broad public a story that has NOT been told yet and instead of backing the producers up we have the Right Wing measuring a self declared Dramatization against reality. And on the basis of it not achieving perfection a bunch of them run screaming off the cliff. It is hilarious?almost. To these conservatives if perfection is not achieved in the telling of the story of Clinton era mistakes then it is better not to tell the story at all.

I must have missed the part where the otherside (our side) of the story has been told so well by the MSM that we can now be picky about how the stories are told. So now we have gone from wishing the Mainstream Media might sometimes tell the otherside of the story to demanding that if they are not able to recreate reality not tell the story at all. Yea that makes a whole lot of sense. Better not to hear how this wasn?t all the doing of the Bush administration if it means we compress events. Better not to hear how we dropped the ball for years before President Bush got into office rather than to make the Clintonistas a bit uncomfortable by not being able to re-recreate a reality that shifts everytime the Democrats and the Left tell it.

If ABC pulls the movie it won?t only be because of the actions of the left wing but also because of the actions of these folks. We didn?t support them when they needed it.

The problem is when perfect, being the enemy of the good, freezes us into silence. There is absolutely no way to recreate the reality that existed over the time this movie dramatizes. Do we then avoid telling the story because we cannot have it perfectly right? Do we imagine that the Democrats and the left are avoiding telling an imperfect tale? Do we really believe that the general public will understand they are not hearing both sides of the story if our side refuses to utter a word that is not perfection? Doesn?t anyone understand that instead of believing they are not hearing both sides of the story the general public believes it must be the truth since we refuse to tell our side?

The truth is Sandy Berger and Madeline Albright were in fact extremely timid in prosecuting the war on terror. Does the right believe otherwise? The truth is Sandy Berger and the Clinton Administration did in fact pass on attempts to assassinate Bin Laden (ht Macs Mind ). Does the right believe otherwise?

We treated ABC shabbily. It was almost as if a bad child having finely done something good but not perfect came to their family expecting to get a pat on the head and instead got a kick in the ass. Thanks guys.

People predisposed to watching anything 9/11 already “know” as close as they are going to know the relevant narrative in dispute. By banning the movie you could end up elevating it to cult status and get it seen by people who were not predisposed to seeing it to begin with. The path to 9/11 gets a banned rating; it makes the underground lists of banned books & films to be shown in colleges and universities. (I can dream too)
By banning it you make it watch-able even if is in a William Hung kind of way.

More people “know” about the Lee Harvey Oswald lone gunman controversy not from reading the Warren Commission Report or researching microfilmed news articles at the library, but from the aura of conspiracy, the curiosity surrounding the many theories of what happened. An accidental knowledge of sorts.

Perhaps this is not the best way to convey accurate information. But, it may result that by crying wolf the Clintons end up shedding more light on it, raising people’s curiosity. (ditto David Thomson)

By the time the vail of “the banned 9/11 movie” is lifted, more people will have seen it than if you show it now amoung all the other 9/11 aniversary crap.

Remember, in the end its not the lie, it’s the cover up that gets them.

But, then, let’s examine both parties starting the clock on 9/12/01. Five years have passed and what the heck have the Democrats done in that time frame? Have they proposed a better plan than Bush in confronting rather than retreating from the Islamofascism threat? Any plan? Heck, have they even used the word Islamofascism yet? At least, Bush has recently.

The world around us is being engulfed by Islamofascism in places like Darfur, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines where no grievances against America or the west can be blamed. This cancer has no limits.

God spare us if the Democrats ever get into the Commander-in-Chief position and/or take back Congress. I think the many in the public are smart enough to retreat from the MSM seeing them as the Useful Idiots that they are. It’s the not very savvy uninformed voters tuned into our lame MSM that worry me.

As to HGTV, it is TERRIFIC. There is one program called “Neat”… and then there is Holmes on Homes… and all those interior decorating things – kind of like Cinderella, only REAL. Watching HGTV is one of the best things I do when I go visit relatives in cities. Really.

Q: I mean, isnít it the case that this film actually does show Sandy Berger hanging up the phone in the middle of a conference call, when there are U.S. personnel whose lives are at risk on the ground, and they have bin Laden in their sights, and that really nothing like that ever happened?

KEAN: Well, the question, Shaun, is whether ó whether it was Sandy Berger, or whether it was the head of the CIA? Whether the call was hung up on or whether it was totally ó whether it was disrupted by a failure in communications? I mean, these are all historically, I think, open questions. But again, this is a, you know, this is a miniseries, not a documentary.

It’s not like the scene that has been so upsetting never happened, but rather the detail of how the phone call ended is in dispute.

We will never know what Bush would have done in the ’90s in the face of rising Islamofascist terrorism, but we do know what Clinton did, and it was ultimately very damaging to our security.

We also know what Carter did, which was to hand Islamofascism its first big prize and validation of its power – Iran, and then show how weak we were by his reaction to their invasion of sovereign US territory (the embassy in Tehran) and their other acts of war associated with that event. This while he and the Democratic congress were eviscerating our intelligence capabilities and allowing another evil – Russian communist imperialism – to run rampant all over the world.

A very telling anecdote is Carter’s reaction to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan: prevent our athletes from participating in the Moscow Olympics. Wow! I’ll bet that really hurt! And this from a military veteran Democrat.

One lesson that is pretty clear by now, but not if your only source of information is the MSM: Democrats are dangerously incompetent in National Security matters. The last 3 Democratic presidents, and the consistent actions of Democrats in Congress since at least 1974, show that clearly.

A fundamental cognitive failure that permeates their party – they simply do not understand, intellectually or emotionally, humanity.

At a deep level, they cannot comprehend evil – that it is here, that it has always here, and that none of their utopian ideas have lessened it. Their neo-Marxist instincts fail to explain all ills (e.g. much terrorism is NOT caused by repression and poverty). They cannot understand that real danger is from people truly evil (today’s Nazi’s – the Islamofascists), rather than the imagined evil of the Bushitler. They completely fail to understand how religion affects the world, especially Christianity and Islam.

Their neurosis of multiculturalism manifests as contempt and hatred for western civilization, while crippling their ability to even criticize those who would enslave and kill them and their children. This dangerous idea system leads them to feel guilt even condemning those who viciously violate many of the causes that, on the surface, the Dems hold so dear – feminism, freedom of speech, freedom of religion (or from religion), non-violent behavior, tolerance, intellectual progress.

Just as they cannot imagine sending their children to defend the United States that they despise, they cannot possibly grasp the thinking of those who rejoice in the opportunity to die in the act of killing infidel women and children.

The modern Democratic party is quite literally insane.

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Given how well the MSM has covered for the Dems, and deflected the topic always into the Bushitler narrative, a movie, even un-artistic, which dramatizes the cluelessness of that bunch of high-IQ fools, and how their fundamental world view predestined that cluelessness, would be a public service – not because we give a fig about Clinton’s “legacy” – but because the populace needs to understand Democrats in the realm of defending us against the real existential threats to our civilization, our ideals and our very people.

Wasn’t Richard Clarke the guy who was so worried about the Y2K thingee? How soon they forget.