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A Fable: What the President's response to 9/11 might have been
By L.M. Arndt (about the author)
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It was already very clear that people around the world were responding, were empathetic, were cooperating in a multitude of ways. The President remembered a comment by President Ronald Reagan, that perhaps the world needed an invasion of aliens from outer space to provide the incentive for all peoples to come together. Perhaps this ugly episode might serve that same purpose. Perhaps, indeed, time would show that those who had died in this disaster had NOT died in vain, that their sacrifice had set humanity on a new course, a course that would reject violence, embrace justice, that would believe wholeheartedly in the possibility of a peaceful world.
Too bad this is just a fable.
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Too bad this is just a fable.
Born in Philadelphia, grew up on a farm, which my parents lost in the Great Depression. I suppose my political inclination began when I watched Dad ride our horse across snow-covered fields to vote for FDR. Married, three great sons, divorced. Still (more...)
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You're still buying the official "conspiracy theory"
by CasaZaza on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:30:51 AM
It's not reality.
by Maxwell on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:14:06 PM
buying into the official "conspiracy"
by L.M. Arndt on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:32:38 PM
LM
by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:28:05 PM
Is Bush a "useful idiot" or just a regular "idiot"
by CasaZaza on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:46:16 PM
Some small adders
by Mark Sashine on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:14:32 PM
and yet....
by mikel paul on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:35:44 PM
Truthers continue to use fiction to advance their "facts"
by Tom Murphy on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:55:07 PM
It is amazing
by Mark Sashine on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:45:52 PM
Hmmm
by Charlie L on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:41:36 PM
Just an appallingly bad liar, perhaps?
by Michael Fury on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:03:31 PM
And The Fable Goes On
by aberamsay on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:14:43 AM
and the Fable goes on . . .
by L.M. Arndt on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:50:46 PM