Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots – Commentary
It’s been 20 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 20 years since we lost nearly 3,000 people to radical Islamic murderers. 20 years of memories, memorials, and healing. 20 years of not forgetting what happened or who was responsible for it.
In the days which followed the September 11th 2001 attacks, Americans came together only to separate again – but for a few days anyway, Americans were united in the knowledge of who perpetrated this attack and the belief that we needed to go and get them no matter where they were hiding, no matter how long it would take.
It was al Qaeda. Radical Islam. An ideology not a religion. They had been at war with us for years but we had not adopted that stance; and instead, passed off their aggression as isolated attacks, a matter for law enforcement rather than for the military. We had been wrong in that tact and on September 11th 2001, we paid for it.
Everybody remembers where they were and what they were doing when the first news came that we had indeed been attacked. Well, not exactly everybody. For the vast minority 
of Americans, 9-11 is an all-too vivid memory, but for anyone younger than 20, 9-11 is just a moment in history.
The problem is that far too many who were old enough to feel the impact of that day ON that day, it has become a piece of history, a distant memory, a fleeting blip on the timeline of their lives. That’s how history winds up repeating itself. Too many who remember it fail to learn from it while others simply forget that which we vowed never to forget.
It was the beginning of the war on terror but honestly, that was much less than it should have been. 20 years provides 20/20 hindsight but there were those of us who knew on that Tuesday morning in September 20 years ago what needed to be done, what should have been done. It should have been the beginning of WWIII and regardless of how long it took or what it took, we should have perused it with the mindset we employed when we entered WWII.
We should have made it our solemn goal to chase the barbaric bastards to the gates of hell, and through it but we worried too much about what other nations thought of us, worried too much about collateral damage, and worried that allies in the region might turn away from us claiming we were on some sort of a religious crusade. Our nation’s first and perhaps longest lasting mistake was regarding islam as a religion.
There are roughly 195 countries on earth, and at least 175 of them would have been plenty happy to join us against the civilized world’s common enemy but we paid more attention to the 25 countries who might have been offended.
Just 10 days after the attacks on American soil, President George W. Bush stood before congress while being watched by the world and said, “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” It would have been better in the long term had he actually meant it but instead, he built a coalition of the willing.
The way it was portrayed at the time was that the nations who joined us were from the region and were willing to stand against the terrorist factions that lurked in their own countries, but now, with 20/20 hindsight, it was very different than that. It was we who were the willing, and we were willing to follow their rules of engagement without actually getting the job done.
In WWWI and WWII, we were the underdogs but by the end of those two World Wars, we 
were the alpha dogs. In Korea, our government stopped too soon when we should have chased the communist Chinese across the Yangtze River and just kept going. In Vietnam, our government lacked the will seek victory because the media was against the notion of it.
We won the cold war without firing a shot which led us to believe that we could simply intimidate all of our enemies into shadows of history.
The simple fact that 9-11 happened at all should have been enough to teach us that our newest enemy, an enemy that follows a 7th century ideology of death and destruction required the sort of effort we had put forward in two World Wars. They knocked down our two greatest towers, plowed into the Pentagon and targeted our nation’s Capitol. It was obvious, at least to some of us that islamist terrorists were not intimidated and would not 
fold themselves into the shadows of history.
I know that the rank and file men and women of the U.S. military had more than enough gumption and motivation 20 years ago to do what should have been done and I know that they would have gone to hell and back to secure a true victory over terrorists wherever they tried to hide, but it was our nation’s top brass that lacked the balls to eradicate islamist terrorists from the face of the earth.
Personally, I will never forget that Tuesday morning in September of 2001. That day and those events are seared into my mind, as is the rage I felt the instant I knew it wasn’t an accident. 20 years ago, we had the might and the right to make Afghanistan glow in the dark and rain absolute destruction from the heavens on any country that harbored the ilk of 
those who wreaked havoc on our soil.
It’s been 20 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 20 years since we lost more than 3,000 people to radical Islamic murderers. 20 years of memories, memorials, and healing. 20 years of not forgetting what happened or who was responsible for it.
I hope and pray it doesn’t take another 20 years to do what we should have done…20 years ago.
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I was sleeping in on that Tuesday morning….but my sister called me and told me “We are at war!” That was the morning I found out that we had FOX NEWS and now they are covering the 20 year anniversary this year. People tend to forget that on 9/11/2011 we were hit again by terrorist…home grown, real live people who pretended they were shocked!! Benghazzi was a refresher course for all of us. It often goes without notice of anykind. If we don’t get those planes going from Afghan, there is a possiblity that those planes will be blown to bits. Living people are targets for killing after they bribe for more money. Obama bin O’Biden have sold America down the Chineese River!!!! Shame on them and pray for those hostages!!!!
I remember Tuesday, September 11,2001! BATTLEFIELD CAMPGROUND. Our TV was on and then there was a News Bulletin and the video of an airplane flying into Building 1 of the World Trade Center – with the pundits discussing what had happened. Then another plane flew into Building 2 and everyone knew – we had been attacked by Islamic terrorists. NEVER FORGET – AND TEACH YOUR CHILDREN, you cannot trust Islamists – their book allows them to lie if it advances their idiology. Remember my friends, we’re in a spiritual and actual war with them now. If we lose this war – America will be over. Satanic terrorists will have won.