As It Happened

LGF has a great collection of videos from the day. Worth checking out. Especially the one of the celebrating “Palestinians”.

What We Saw

LGF has some previously unreleased video of the attack.

I Will Not Submit

Thanks to Michelle Malkin and friends for this.

Take the pledge.

Live on Radio

Courtesy of Melanie Morgan and Move America Forward, this link to an archive of live radio reports. You can hear what was being reported in New York five years ago.

Five Years Later

There’s a nice debate on Front Page. I like everything Andy McCarthy has to say. And this quote from Jed Babbin:

We can’t defeat radical Islam without saying — long, hard and continuously — that Western society is superior to radical Islam, and telling that to all we can reach on radio, the internet and otherwise. We offer peace, prosperity and human rights. They offer war, death, poverty and slavery. Until we break the hold radical Islam has on the countries it controls, this war will not be won. Which means that we need to be taking the initiative against Iran, Syria and the rest without regard to how well or how poorly Iraq’s nascent democracy is doing.

Why We Fight

A page of great links at the Patriot Post. Appropriate reading for this weekend.

The Path From 9/11

While Democrats cow ABC into bowdlerizing or pulling their miniseries, Power Line provides a chronology which makes one wonder why the Clintonistas protest so much.

Maybe they think ABC is biting the hand that leads them.

Meanwhile, Jpod thinks it’s inaccurate enough to be a waste of time, while Brent Bozell likes it.

Me? I don’t really watch TV anyway.

Update:

I think Power Line has exactly the right take on why the miniseries doesn’t matter, but the Democrat reaction to it does.

What the Democrats are trying to do is return to the hunker-down and hope for the best days of the Clinton administration. They are trying to sell the American people on the absurd proposition that the terrorist threat we face today is mostly George Bush’s fault, and that if we only abandon his tough approach to national security, everything will be fine.

Scholastic (and ABC) Cave

I’m shocked. SHOCKED! to learn that ABC is re-editing the show, and that Scholastic is pulling their educational materials. Still, it’s fun to watch Tucker Carlson give David Brock a public spanking.

The Man Who Fed the World

Three cheers for Norman Borlaug.

Norman Borlaug, 92, is the father of the “Green Revolution,” the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. He is now the subject of an admiring biography by Leon Hesser, a former State Department official who first met Mr. Borlaug 40 years ago in Pakistan, where they worked together to boost that country’s grain production. “The Man Who Fed the World” describes, in a workmanlike way, how a poor Iowa farm boy trained in forestry and plant pathology came to be one of humanity’s greatest benefactors.

Apparently in 1970 the Nobel Peace Prize still meant something.

What a country

Normally a man this deranged would be limited to pushing a shopping cart around in bad neighborhoods. But not in the Florida Democrat party! They run him for congress!

Another street-bum mutterer, desperately wishing to be relevant, got a gig on cable.

Remembering the Victims, Redux

See a video memorial, Crystal Morning, over on brain-terminal.

Situation Normal

Well, well. The British Police took “sensitivity training” at a school now being investigated for terrorism. But it’s OK. Islamic misogyny is now officially supported at British Hospitals.

And in Denmark, nine people have been arrested. You know. Just folk.

Meanwhile, closer to home, Democrats are making sure one of their key constituencies gets registered to vote.

One Reason to Like Mitt

I’m still in “despair-and-see” mode about 2008 presidential hopefuls. But there do seem to be reasons to like Mitt Romney. Here’s one.

“State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and the destruction of Israel,” said Romney.

“No, thanks”

“Look, we’re just not interested in getting this stuff, we get stuff all the time, I’m not, just just because we write about the military doesn’t mean we’re gonna snatch up every column by somebody on the right who’s ya know is supporting the troops.”

Sincerely, The Air Force Times

Almost makes me wish I still watched television

ABC, no less. A miniseries, The Path to 9/11 is scheduled to run on the 10th and 11th of September. There’s an encouraging review on FrontPage.

This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden. One astonishing sequence in “The Path to 9/11” shows the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding Bin Laden’s house in Afghanistan. They’re on the verge of capturing Bin Laden, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to go ahead. They phone Clinton, but he and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of Bin Laden, for fear of political fall-out if the mission should go wrong and civilians are harmed. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger in essence tells the team in Afghanistan that if they want to capture Bin Laden, they’ll have to go ahead and do it on their own without any official authorization. That way, their necks will be on the line – and not his. The astonished CIA agent on the ground in Afghanistan repeatedly asks Berger if this is really what the administration wants. Berger refuses to answer, and then finally just hangs up on the agent. The CIA team and the Northern Alliance, just a few feet from capturing Bin Laden, have to abandon the entire mission. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda shortly thereafter bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing over 225 men, women, and children, and wounding over 4000. The episode is a perfect example of Clinton-era irresponsibility and incompetence.

I’m impressed that it got made at all, let alone so well.

worries that it might not make it to air unsullied.

Apparently, the documentary recounts the bureaucratic bungling and lack of action against al Qaeda that was pervasive prior to the September 11 atrocities. It is by no means, I understand, pro-Bush. It is, instead, an effort to present history accurately. This evidently has many former Clinton officials and apologists in their default kill-the-messenger mode. Great pressure is being brought to bear on ABC and Disney to reopen the editorial process at this late stage (the documentary is supposed to air on September 10-11) so that the years 1993-2001 may remain forever airbrushed.

Could be worth watching.