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Rod Dreher writes at The American Conservative, "The president who launched the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan had some words of advice for America yesterday:Former President George W. Bush called on Americans Saturday to confront domestic violent extremists, comparing them to violent extremists abroad and warning that they are 'children of the same foul spirit.'In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Bush said the US has seen 'growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.''There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,' Bush said. 'But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.''And it is our continuing duty to confront them,' he added.Bush’s speech at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, came eight months after violent insurrectionists breached the US Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election for President Joe Biden.President Bush named US "violent extremists" as the new Al Qaeda. We who recall how this man and his administration manufactured consent for the Iraq War have a duty to speak out against this language, which the ruling class will use to demonize dissent. https://t.co/Y6ZjicWqZO — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) September 12, 2021
Rod Dreher writes at The American Conservative, "The president who launched the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan had some words of advice for America yesterday:
Former President George W. Bush called on Americans Saturday to confront domestic violent extremists, comparing them to violent extremists abroad and warning that they are 'children of the same foul spirit.'
In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Bush said the US has seen 'growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.'
'There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,' Bush said. 'But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.'
'And it is our continuing duty to confront them,' he added.
Bush’s speech at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, came eight months after violent insurrectionists breached the US Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election for President Joe Biden.
President Bush named US "violent extremists" as the new Al Qaeda. We who recall how this man and his administration manufactured consent for the Iraq War have a duty to speak out against this language, which the ruling class will use to demonize dissent. https://t.co/Y6ZjicWqZO — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) September 12, 2021
President Bush named US "violent extremists" as the new Al Qaeda. We who recall how this man and his administration manufactured consent for the Iraq War have a duty to speak out against this language, which the ruling class will use to demonize dissent. https://t.co/Y6ZjicWqZO
Here’s a link to the transcript of the entire speech. It’s not a bad speech … until you realize that the man giving it is the one whose bad judgment about who the enemy was and what the nature of the fight was got us into one bad and wholly unnecessary war (Iraq), and one just war (Afghanistan) that turned into a twenty-year nation-building calamity. There was not one word in that speech about Iraq or Afghanistan. No regret — not even a hint of the awareness of tragedy. Just patriotic nostalgia. It wouldn’t have sounded like boilerplate had we actually achieved our goals in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and turned them both into liberal democracies.
There was not a sentence, or even a single syllable, indicating that President Bush has given any real thought to the meaning of the past twenty years, and his role in it."
Read the entire column.
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