The Lessons of 9/11

There he goes again. Just when you think that if you hear the President say "stay the course" one more time you're going to go all Squeaky Fromme on his ass, he mixes it up a little. He trots out the old "we must not forget the lessons of 9/11."

I'll confess: if those lessons had anything to do with trigonometry, I'm pretty sure I already forgot them.

This tired old phrase is, of course, part of the big web of half-lies that the administration keeps spinning in order to get the mouth-breathers to think that Iraq has jackshit to do with 9/11. Yawn. We all know this.

This phrase also betrays the utter paucity of historical imagination on the part of our subnorm President. There is no nuance, no search for pattern or cause. Just what, exactly, does the President--even in his terms--think that the "lessons" of 9/11 are?

Lesson 1: "My Pet Goat" is well-written and entertaining, but the plotting could be tighter.
Lesson 2: It's no fun to be on a hijacked plane. We should be against hijackings.
Lesson 3: Arabs hate freedom. So do the French. And liberals.
Lesson 4: Sometimes, a dossier just can't get any sexier.
Lesson 5: If your building is going to get blown up by terrorists, take a sick day.
Lesson 6: There is nothing so brutal and horrifying that one shouldn't exploit it for one's own warmongering agenda.