“America Needs Another 9/11”

If you need more evidence about how far American conservatives have fallen into delusional thinking, you only need to read this editorial by a right-wing columnist in a major US newspaper.  What would really help America is another terrorist attack that would kill thousands of citizens:

"Turn back to 9/11.

Remember the community of outrage and national resolve? America had not been so united since the first Day of Infamy – 12/7/41.

We knew who the enemy was then.

We knew who the enemy was shortly after 9/11.

America’s fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.

What would sew us back together?

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.

Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?

If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America’s righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail."

The right wing realizes it is losing its grip on America.  Americans are tired of a pointless war that has brought nothing but misery, they are not so enamored of torture, they are not clamoring for more tax cuts that have ruined our infrastructure and our schools. The only way to preserve power is to welcome terrorists to our shores.

Predictably, the right-wing media outlet Fox News endorsed this call for the mass murder of Americans. Fox star anchor John Gibson told viewers: "I think it’s going to take a lot of dead people to wake America up."