9/11 Is A Right Wing Weapon

The wave of 9/11 remembrance on the 9th anniversary is far, far greater than on the 8th. Why? Thank the totally manufactured “ground zero mosque” & “Koran burning” controversies. Yet again the right wing and their blogging stormtroopers manipulate the zeitgeist, and wag the dog. They know that 9/11 plays far better for them, than for liberals. General David Petraeus, whose politics are as thinly disguised as his buzzcut, dutifully raised the stakes by warning that burning the Korans would endanger US troops – as if it was possible to put them more in harm’s way than they already are.

And all this 7 weeks before crucial mid-term elections that could put Obama out of business. The Republicans said that they’d go after the “Ground Zero Mosque” trope as a campaign tactic. They couldn’t have formulated a more effective and more insidious approach to it.

To make matters worse, the Progressives are willing dupes, rending their hair in the name of Islam (on the anniversary of the very moment when a derivation of extreme Islam attacked us to our great cost), while actually reinforcing Muslim victim-hood, and alienating the left and the Democrats in the wider political context.

The GOP must be loving this.