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February 26, 2003

An Anniversary

Ten years ago today, terrorists detonated a bomb in the World Trade Center.

"It felt like an airplane hit the building," said Bruce Pomper, a 34-year-old broker.

Ironic.

An emotional Mario Cuomo, New York's state governor, told journalists: "We all have that feeling of being violated. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now we were invulnerable."

Sounds a lot like what we heard on September 12, 2001. I'm not sure what it is about us that makes us forget so quickly that, while we are the world's superpower, we are not invulnerable. After every tragedy, the media claims that America has lost its innocence. Sorry, but our terror-cherry was popped a long time ago; it's time to realize we can be attacked - and to destroy those who would attack us.

I used to find the phrase "he was going to hit me, so I hit him back first" rather funny - no longer. Now it should be doctrine.

Update: Common-sense has more.