COMMENTARY | While most people of all political persuasions have been united in grief during the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, has chosen a different route.
Krugman’s thesis is a kind of thinking man’s version of 9/11 trutherism. He avoids the obvious trap of suggesting that a conspiracy led by President George W. Bush and/or Vice President Dick Cheney actually orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and put the blame on irate Muslim terrorists. However he does maintain that Bush, Giuliani and others have used the 9/11 attacks for their own political gain, including the launching of the launching of “an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight.” One has to assume he means Iraq, though one cannot be sure. With Iraq won, a lot of lefties have turned on the war in Afghanistan, which formally was considered “the good war.”
The second to last sentence of his blog post, the one in which he announces that the comments section has been disabled, is this, “The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”
That a person capable of writing a paragraph like that is employed by the New York Times demonstrates why that once proud newspaper has been marginalized to become a far left screed sheet, fit only to reveal the cesspit of insanity that is the liberal mind.
The use of the word “shame” is the aspect of this blather that is most galling. On an occasion when President Obama and former President Bush, sworn political enemies, stood side by side to lead the nation in mourning, Krugman choose to do the thing he accused people he hates of doing. He hijacked the 9/11 anniversary to take partisan shots. Indeed he did that in order to put down in words an incoherent rant.
The shame is not on the country, no matter what Krugman imagines is in our collective hearts. The shame is on him for writing those words and on the New York Times for publishing them.
Source: The Years of Shame, Paul Krugman, New York Times, Sept. 11, 2011