Obama-Turns-911-National-Day-of-Service

Barack Obama once explained the root cause of the jihadi attacks of 9/11 was a lack of empathy on the part of the attackers. Not religious fanaticism, blind hatred, or plain homicidal mania. It was a lack of cultural understanding. Nothing excusesthedeliberate murder of innocent people a lack of cultural exchange.

With that mindset, it is not hard to imagine Obama would want to turn 9/11 remembrances into a National Day of Service. Indeed, that was part of his massive expansion of community service, for which all but fourteen republican senators supported, signed into law this spring.

Surprise, surprise, apparently none of the GOP senators supporting the measure actually read the bill. The National Day of Service for 9/11 is all about ethanol, curbing carbon emissions, and leftist community organizing. In other words, Americans need to spend 9/11 atoning for all the evil which “forced’ Al Qeada to attack us. It is pure progressive guilt.

The National day Service’s goals were outlined by Obama ally “Rev.” Lennox Yearwood. year wood is president of the Hip Hop Caucus, an organization which manages community building projects in poor urban areas. But year wood is most well known for getting himself arrested. Most recently, he was hauled off by police outside the Senate hearing of Gen. David Petraeus in 2007. He insisted upon sitting in on the hearing because “when officers lie, soldiers die.”

Yearwood has gone on the record as saying he wants 9/11 to be about something positive, forward looking, and productive.

Here is my two cents worth. While I am all for private citizens volunteering in their communities, particularly without any government participation, this National day of Service is a cheap attempt to rob 9/11 of it true meaning and replace it with the alleviation of guilt over whatever cultural crimes of which the left believes Americans are guilty.

The problem with that is we are not guilty of anything. The radical jihadis used high technology in order to destroy symbols of modernity. They flew planeloads of ordinary citizens into towering skyscrapers which were a symbol of wealth and power. We do not need to be punished for having those things, no matter how much guilt obama and his ilk feel guilty about our nation’s prosperity.

I am in the camp which says those towers should have already been well on their way to being rebuilt taller than before asa celebration of the superiority of our culture and prosperity. I would rather see us spending resources to that goal rather than soul searching on why radical Islamists hate us and how we can fix the problem outside of sensing them straight to hell which I also think is a hunky dory idea.

Eye of Polyphemus