GLENN REYNOLDS on 9/11 and President Trump
19 YEARS AGO TODAY, WE SAID “NEVER FORGET,” BUT WE MOSTLY HAVE. Maybe that’s okay, in a way. As hardly anyone has noticed, Trump’s Mideast peace deals have pulled the teeth of Islamic terror — without funding from the Saudis and the other rich Arab states, these “grassroots” terror movements miraculously disappear, just as the “people-based” communist revolutions vanished as soon as the Soviet Union went belly-up and quit funding them. And also, with fracking, there’s not as much Arab money lying around to begin with.
No one who was alive and aware that day will forget it, but my law students are already mostly young enough not to really remember it.
But look at it this way: The Bush presidency was basically all about reacting to 9/11. The Obama presidency was mostly about reacting to the Bush presidency’s reaction to 9/11. Trump’s presidency has been about putting the United States in a position where things like that won’t happen. I’ll take it.
(Glenn Reynolds, Untitled Post, pjmedia.com/instapundit, September 11, 2020 (lightly edited, emphasis added))
Mr. Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee and proprietor of the legendary and indispensable Instapundit blog. He is also one of America's preeminent public intellectuals. (Another is Houston radio talk-show host Michael Berry, but that's a story for another day.)
Professor Reynolds tosses off better occasional pieces, such as the text above, than most of write after hours of agony. I often steal from his blog. I do it without shame under the principle that he said what I would have said if I could have said, so — in some sense — I said. When Unca D ambles off the stage, which will be soon, your homework assignment will be to keep reading Instapundit.
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