Paul Krugman calls the last ten years, years of shame

Krugman starts out his very short piece by saying: Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Well...gee. This was a commemmoration, not a celebration. There was nothing to celebrate. (If we'd taken out Iran or if the radical Muslims had given up their terrorism activities, then there might have been something to celebrate.)

Commemorations of tragic events are supposed to be subdued. Krugman is an idiot.

In addition, he doesn't have the guts to leave his "comments" section open, so that people can comment on what he'd said. Seems pretty cowardly to me.

From the New York Times: The Years of Shame

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.

It's a very short article, I'd like him to expand on his final assumption, "And in its heart, the nation knows it." Not quite sure what part of the nation he thinks he's talking about.


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