Achtung Bubba
Refugee
Jonah Goldberg, editor of the National Review Online, nailed the issue within this article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg091301.shtml
The highlights:
"We can't bring back the dead, but we can rebuild the broken. In fact ? to borrow a phrase from the Six Million Dollar Man ? we can rebuild it better, faster, and stronger."
"...other than delivering righteous retribution, the best way America can show that it's wiped away its tears and put steel in its spine is to rebuild the World Trade Center. A serious, dare I say manly, nation doesn't wallow. It dusts itself off, and gets up off the mat.
"When the World Trade Center was first constructed it was the tallest building in the world. When it was destroyed, it was the fifth. America isn't fifth at anything worth being first at. It's time we had the tallest building in the world again."
"America's enemies believe that we are a weak and soft nation, lacking the mettle to rise to this occasion. On the battlefront it looks like they were wrong. (John McCain: "I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.") And while the bravery of the rescue teams is indisputable, we need to do more on the home front to show our enemies were wrong in every regard.
"America will find an appropriate way to mourn. But if we must have a shrine or monument for our remorse, let's put it on the 200th floor, right next to the antiaircraft guns."
My emphasis was added at the end, but I doubt Mr. Goldberg would much mind.
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- Achtung Bubba
September, streets capsizing,
Spilling over, down the drain
"You know, by God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're goin' up against. By God, I do. We're not just gonna shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy...bastards by the bushel."
from the film Patton
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg091301.shtml
The highlights:
"We can't bring back the dead, but we can rebuild the broken. In fact ? to borrow a phrase from the Six Million Dollar Man ? we can rebuild it better, faster, and stronger."
"...other than delivering righteous retribution, the best way America can show that it's wiped away its tears and put steel in its spine is to rebuild the World Trade Center. A serious, dare I say manly, nation doesn't wallow. It dusts itself off, and gets up off the mat.
"When the World Trade Center was first constructed it was the tallest building in the world. When it was destroyed, it was the fifth. America isn't fifth at anything worth being first at. It's time we had the tallest building in the world again."
"America's enemies believe that we are a weak and soft nation, lacking the mettle to rise to this occasion. On the battlefront it looks like they were wrong. (John McCain: "I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.") And while the bravery of the rescue teams is indisputable, we need to do more on the home front to show our enemies were wrong in every regard.
"America will find an appropriate way to mourn. But if we must have a shrine or monument for our remorse, let's put it on the 200th floor, right next to the antiaircraft guns."
My emphasis was added at the end, but I doubt Mr. Goldberg would much mind.
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- Achtung Bubba
September, streets capsizing,
Spilling over, down the drain
"You know, by God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're goin' up against. By God, I do. We're not just gonna shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy...bastards by the bushel."
from the film Patton