Amid the maudlin, self-pitying outpourings that dominated 9/11 press coverage, jihadists in Syria remind us that it is not time to weep, it is time to fight for our lives.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying the dead of 9/11 should not be mourned. Far from it. But on the December 7s after Pearl Harbor, there was nothing like the pity parties and orgies of self-recrimination that have come on every 9/11, and this year was the worst of all. There was just determination to prevail. We should learn a lesson from that.
“Gunmen try to take U.S. Embassy in Syria,” from AP:
DAMASCUS, Syria – Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives, the government said. Four people were killed in the brazen attack, including three of the assailants.
No Americans were hurt, and the attackers apparently did not breach the high walls surrounding the embassy’s white compound in the city’s diplomatic neighborhood….
Witnesses also said the gunmen tried to throw hand grenades into the embassy compound, shouting “Allah Akbar!” or “God is great!” It was not clear if any of the grenades made it over the walls, which are about 8 feet high.