by Jared Taylor, The Unz Review:
It didn’t change what it should have.
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Friday will be the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I watched on TV as the second plane hit, and I saw the towers collapse.
It was a shock, for sure. But others were a lot more shocked than I was. President George W. Bush said, “It became evident … that the world had changed.” His secretary of state, Colin Powell, said the same thing: “The world has changed.” The Baltimore Sun ran a story the next day, “Everything changed yesterday.” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the attacks “changed everything.” Even now, people are still claiming that it was “the day that changed the world.”
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Everything changed? Hardly. And the things that should have changed didn’t.
Twenty-five years ago, American Renaissance was a monthly newsletter, and the attacks were the cover story, with the title, “Will America Learn the Lessons of Sept. 11?” I wanted just two things to change.
First, I thought that after 19 Arabs killed 3,000 Americans, it would jolt people out of the idea that diversity is a strength. I pointed out that this band of murderers had been in the country for months, despite illegal entry, visa overstays, and all kinds of suspicious behavior, and that many of them couldn’t even speak English.
They attracted no attention because there were already millions of Arabs in the country, and they blended right in.
I wrote this: “If, because of these terrible attacks, the country manages to turn a calculating eye on the costs and benefits of playing host to millions of Arabs, the red-ink dead-loss bottom line should raise questions about other groups. What earthly good do Cambodians, Nigerians, Guatemalans, Haitians, and all the rest of them do the country?”
I was so naïve. I thought the damage Muslim Arabs had done was so great, it was obvious we’d be better off without them, and people might begin to wonder about other newcomers. Instead, President W. visited an Islamic center and told us Muslims were terrific! “Islam is peace,” he said, and America would grind to a halt without it: “America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country.”
The attack that had changed “everything” didn’t change blind adoration for diversity.
The other thing I hoped would change was that Americans might seriously wonder why those 19 men were willing to blow themselves to bits trying to kill Americans. But just nine days after the attack, President Bush went before a joint session of Congress and said something abysmally stupid.
“Americans ask, ‘Why do they hate us?’ . . . They hate our freedoms. They hate our freedom of religion, freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”
Are we really supposed to think Osama and the boys sat in their caves, thinking, “Those Americans have too much freedom. We better kill a bunch of them”?
Both before and after the attack, Bin Laden explained his reasons, most specifically in his “Letter to the American People.” Wikipedia lists his number-one reason: American foreign policy in the Middle East — particularly as it applies to its support of Israel.
I remember people at the time saying, “That’s not the real reason. You can’t believe a word that terrorist says.” On the contrary, if someone goes to that kind of trouble to make a point, he’s going to be very clear about why he did it.
