Back of the Envelope

Apparently, some New Yorkers believe they have the only right to 9/11, and that all others should leave America's fight with terrorism to those who were personally affected by it. From A Small Victory:

Since when is terrorism only an issue to those who have suffered from it? Do you have to live through a terrible thing in order to fear that terrible thing? Is it necessary to have the acrid smell of death cling to your clothes in order to want to fight the very thing that caused it?

Have you ever read these stories? They are the voices of 9/11; over one hundred people - most of them not New Yorkers - who did not need to be standing at the foot of the towers in order to understand what terrorism is and what it does to a country.

The people in the Midwest are Americans. Terrorism perpetrated on American soil or interests - whether it be in New York or Yemen, greatly affects all Americans.

[Quoting Ted Rall:]Terrorism? Please, if you live in Mississippi or Colorado or Alaska, don't presume to talk about, much less cast your vote based upon, your "views" of Islamist terrorism. New Yorkers don't lecture you about hunting. Butt out of our business.

And they call us ignorant? Here he compares hunting to a terrorist attack that kills thousands. Tell us, Ted. How does elk hunting compare to people hunting? It doesn't. Two towers crumbling to the ground in New York profoundly affects an entire country and all if its people. A deer falling dead in the woods of Colorado? Need I go on?

And this is what I keep hearing from my fellow New Yorkers. The people outside of New York and D.C. who voted with the war on terror in mind are idiots and fools who were brainwashed by a chimpanzee and his mind-melding sidekick.

I think that these New Yorkers have it backwards. Didn't bin Laden just say that he will only be attacking states that voted for Bush? If that's the case, those Bush-haters in New York and California should be glad that they voted against him, and can now let the Red Staters duke it out with the terrorists. I mean, that is how Michael Moore and his fellow Far Lefties think, isn't it? Their only beef with bin Laden is he attacked non-Bush voters in New York rather than Bush-voters in Louisiana. Of course, these Blue Staters should be glad the Red Staters exist. Frankly, the Islamofascists hate the Hollywood and New York cultural dominance and its amorality than they hate the Oklahomans and Louisianians for their minor contributions to the American Hegemony. Just as they want their earlier conquests in Europe back more than they care what happens in the US. Frankly, Europe needs Americans, and the Bush-haters need the Bush-supporters, because they are the ones who stand between the Islamofascists and their true targets. To the Islamofascists, Bush is an object of intense hatred mainly because he's getting in the way of their true targets.