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Talking Heads September 11

5
1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

Memo­r­ial foun­tains show the foot­print of the twin towers.

Talk show day is upon us again. This week is, unsur­pris­ingly, all about Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001…well, except for Bloomberg’s Polit­i­cal Cap­i­tal. Accord­ing to Politico, here’s the lineup for this week:

Meet the Press (NBC) — Spe­cial cov­er­age of the anniversary.

This Week (ABC) — Broad­cast from Ground Zero.

Face the Nation (CBS) — Also broad­cast­ing from Ground Zero, with inter­views of White House coun­tert­er­ror­ism adviser John Bren­nan, for­mer Defense Sec­re­tary Don­ald Rums­feld, New York Mayor  Michael Bloomberg and the for­mer mayor, Rudy Giuliani.

Picture of Rudy Giuliani

For­mer Mayor Rudy Giu­liani brings his own nouns and verbs

State of the Union (CNN) — Broa­cast­ing live from…you guessed it…Ground Zero, with Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, for­mer Bush White House chief of staff Andrew Card, for­mer CIA Direc­tor Michael Hay­den, and Rumsfeld.

Fox News Sun­day — Bren­nan, Rums­feld and Giu­liani appear here with Sen­a­tors John McCain (R-​​AZ), Dianne Fein­stein (D-​​CA), and Joe Lieber­man (I-​​CT); and House Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee Chair­man Mike Rogers (R-​​MI).

News­mak­ers (CSPAN) — This show is preëmpted this week by CSPAN’s spe­cial cov­er­age of the anniversary.

Polit­i­cal Cap­i­tal (Bloomberg TV) — This is the only show not cov­er­ing the story of the day. Instead, Sen­a­tor Mike Crapo (R-​​ID) will talk about the con­gres­sional super­com­mit­tee charged with find­ing at least $1.2 tril­lion in deficit-​​reduction measures.

It Wasn’t the Beginning

36
1 year ago
by Armchair Warlord in

Editor’s Note: Log­a­rchism occa­sion­ally fea­tures guest arti­cles by our loyal read­ers. Here, Arm­chair War­lord pro­vides his take on the mean­ing of the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks.

It was very hard for me to write this arti­cle. My gen­er­a­tion has, for bet­ter or worse, become inured to the mas­sive tragedies that have played out across the world’s tele­vi­sion screens on a yearly basis for our entire adult lives. The ter­ror attacks on Sep­tem­ber 11 were one of many hor­rors of recent years — promi­nent but, with the last ten years’ of per­spec­tive, by no means unique. There have been many ter­ror attacks since then, some of them almost as deadly. There have been nat­ural dis­as­ters that have laid waste to entire regions of the world. After a while you learn to absorb the shock as a sur­vival mech­a­nism. But when your reac­tion to cat­a­stro­phe is to grit your teeth and carry on, it makes it hard to write some­thing stir­ring and eloquent.

The date has a spe­cial place in our con­scious­ness, though.  (more…)

Open Mic September 9

51
1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

We’ve had a busy week.

President Obama Speaks

Pres­i­dent Obama Speaks

Here at Log­a­rchism, we had ret­ro­spec­tives con­sid­er­ing the decade since the attacks of Sep­tem­ber 11. On Wednes­day, the Repub­li­cans had a pres­i­den­tial debate: Rick Perry had his coming-​​out party. Huge areas of the north­east have flooded from Hur­ri­cane Irene. Texas has enor­mous fires, for which Gov­er­nor Perry sac­ri­ficed his prin­ci­ples and asked for fed­eral aid — from FEMA no less. The NFL had its sea­son opener. Pres­i­dent Obama gave a major speech before a joint ses­sion of Con­gress, propos­ing the Amer­i­can Jobs Act. He went big, and gave a barn­burner of a speech. NASA announced that we’re on the verge of an astro­naut short­age. NASA also released some stun­ning new pho­tos of the Apollo land­ing sites. Home­land Secu­rity has an ele­vated con­cern for New York and Wash­ing­ton, in light of the upcom­ing tenth anniver­sary of Sep­tem­ber 11, say­ing there is a “spe­cific, cred­i­ble” threat.

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The Shanksville Redemption

3
1 year ago
by Monotreme in

All that remains, except for the freedom.

This is the third arti­cle in a series this week on the Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

It is almost 10 AM East­ern time on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001.

Two planes have been delib­er­ately crashed into the World Trade Cen­ter. Amer­i­can flight 11 out of Boston strikes the North Tower at 8:45 AM. With the whole world trans­fixed by the drama in New York, won­der­ing if this is a hor­ri­ble acci­dent or a delib­er­ate act, the defin­i­tive answer is not long in arriv­ing. United flight 175, also out of Boston, strikes the South Tower at 9:03 AM. Amer­i­can flight 77 strikes the Pen­ta­gon at 9:43 AM.

Jeremy Glick, a pas­sen­ger aboard doomed United 93, has called his wife, Lyz. She is stay­ing with her par­ents in upstate New York. State Police are on another line with Jeremy’s mother-​​in-​​law: Does he know where the plane is headed? He’s not sure, but he thinks they’ve changed direc­tion. In fact, the plane is headed to the Dis­trict of Colum­bia. To this day, no one knows which build­ing was the ter­ror­ists’ intended target.

Lyz relates to Jeremy the scene on her par­ents’ TV, the twin tow­ers on fire, soon to collapse.

As so many did, fac­ing down death that day, his mes­sage to his wife is one of agape love, of affir­ma­tion and strength.

Lyz: You need to be strong.
Jeremy: I need you to be happy, and I will respect any deci­sions that you make.

Then he tells her some­thing that is not often reported, that didn’t make it into the movie, that we as Amer­i­cans don’t talk about, but we should. (more…)

Secure in Our Beliefs

13
1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

A typ­i­cal air­port secu­rity line

This is the sec­ond arti­cle in a series this week on the Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

In the 1990s, I was a road war­rior. I spent as much time in air­ports and on air­planes as I did pretty much any­thing else dur­ing my work­ing hours. And I car­ried a Swiss Army knife in my carry-​​on bag, along with my lap­top, because it’s a very handy tool for the ran­dom things that life throws you.

That, along with many other things, changed on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001.

Today, no knives of any kind (even but­ter knives). We are restricted from car­ry­ing most liq­uids and gels. We take our shoes off and have those scanned. We are sub­jected to body scans that are an affront to our mod­esty and may well be car­cino­genic. We wait in longer secu­rity lines at the air­ports. We are denied board­ing if our names are too sim­i­lar to those who are believed to wish ill on our nation. And we’re told that all of this makes us safer.

But are we appre­cia­bly safer with all of these changes?

(more…)

The Death of Peace

36
1 year ago
by dcpetterson in
September 11, 2001, attacks in New York City: V...

What Changed the World

This is the first arti­cle in a series this week on the Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

— from the Bha­gavad Gita, as recalled by J. Robert Oppen­heimer upon the det­o­na­tion of the world’s first arti­fi­cial nuclear explosion.

“The release of atom power has changed every­thing except our way of thinking…”

— Albert Ein­stein

“What’s the sense of send­ing $2 mil­lion mis­siles to hit a $10 tent that’s empty?”

— George W. Bush, pri­vate Oval Office meet­ing, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2001

Albert Ein­stein, that great thinker and physi­cist, needs to be para­phrased. Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, changed noth­ing, except our way of think­ing. But the way we view the world, that changed every­thing. (more…)

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