{"id":95903,"date":"2023-09-11T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95903"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:33:08","slug":"95903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95903","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SO NOW IT\u2019S THE 22D ANNIVERSARY OF 9\/11: One thing I guess I didn\u2019t believe 22 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did \u2014 and then we did it again in 2020 \u2014 and we\u2019ll be paying the price for a long time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We said \u201cnever forget.\u201d Well, we haven\u2019t forgotten the heroism of people like Rick Rescorla, the Flight 93 passengers,<strong> the firefighters who charged up the WTC stairs<\/strong>, or the volunteers who set up the American Dunkirk evacuation of lower Manhattan by boat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But we have forgotten the criminal negligence of our political leaders and intelligence services that got us to that point. We should have purged the incompetents then. Instead, they\u2019re still running the show. The country is still sound, but the people in charge of it have only gotten worse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God bless America. We need it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t mean this to sound gloomy. But Americans consistently shrink from the realities of both international and domestic politics and that\u2019s not good. I think the coming decade will be a dose of reality, for better and for worse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO NOW IT\u2019S THE 22D ANNIVERSARY OF 9\/11: One thing I guess I didn\u2019t believe 22 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did \u2014 and then we did it again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95904,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95903\/revisions\/95904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}