Not Only Are We NOT Going To Forget 9/11, But ...

We expect another attack.

I bring this up because some student at the University of Wyoming has the gall to think we should forget about 9/11, as reported here. He thinks it’s offensive given that “we live in a country where unarmed people of color are shot to death without justification.” (It doesn’t seem to matter how many times people point out that no one knows who is armed and who is not, which entails that mentioning that someone who was shot to death was unarmed is completely irrelevant. Whether the killing of Michael Brown was without justification remains to be seen.) He makes a few other points, which I won’t bother with.

The real point to make is that no one should think that 9/11 was the last terrorist attack on American soil. It is wise to expect another. Here’s why:

1. Both Norway and Australia have dealt recently with Islamic terrorists who planned to kidnap randomly chosen strangers and behead them. See here and here.

2. ISIS has threatened us.

3. Our southern border is not secure, so it is a good bet that people associated with ISIS have come across.

4. Even if it were secure, the fact is that we have let in many people from the Middle East over the past forty years, and we have in no way kept track of them all.

To think that 9/11 is somehow part of a distant past is ludicrous at this point.