Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winner in economics and columnist for
The New York Times, unapologetically
dished out his thoughts on 9/11 this past Sunday, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I will him quote him in full so that it may soak in:
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
I am not even going to take time to comment. The idiocy should already be self-evident.
This article demonstrates why the New York Slimes continues to lose it's readership.
ReplyDeleteKrugman forgets that the "unrelated war the necons wanted to fight" was also backed by Bill Clinton, the U.N., and virtually every Democrat in Congress who voted to authorize it.
ReplyDeleteKrugman is a fake nobody.