Rachel Maddow's 9-11 "Commemoration"

This week virtually all the news networks are devoting air time to 9-11 commemorations. One of them is MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's "Day of Destruction-Decade of War". Last night, I watched about half of it before I got so sick I had to turn it off. This morning, with a fresh stomach, I have been watching segments on the computer. What is the general theme, you ask? If I could summarize it in one sentence, it is "Bad America"-at least under George W Bush-. bad CIA, bad military, bad Halliburton, etc, etc, etc.

You get the message.

Together, along with reporter Richard Engel, Maddow makes the points that the war on terror has not made us safer, that we were wrong to fight it, Afghanistan never invaded us, it has been a war fought for profit, and we have done terrible things to our enemies (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, torture, etc.). Naturally, there were interviews with vets and ex-intel agents who feel they had to do bad things in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Again, I stress that I have not seen the entire production, and I may have missed some points that my readers will inform me on to show I am all wet here. However, knowing Maddow (from TV) as I do, I doubt I missed anything exculpatory.

I did not detect any outrage about 9-11 from Maddow. I didn't see any heartbreaking accounts from survivors or their families. I did not see or hear any recognition that the motive for the war on terror was to save future American lives or prevent future attacks.

Maddow apparently forgot another point (which, to be fair, I could have missed). Unlike our enemies, we have a legal system and a justice system that can deal with criminal acts carried out in a war. Israel does as well, unlike her adversaries. In the case of Abu Ghraib, our justice system has dealt with wrongs committed and some MPs have gone to prison. Maddow also used the case of an American Muslim in Oregon whose fingerprints were matched by the FBI (apparently in error) with a print taken from the Madrid train attacks. Amid all the preaching about "a society that sacrifices freedom in the name of security will gain or deserve neither", we should remember that the American courts rectified the error. The man received a financial settlement and apology. (He apparently spent two weeks in custody.)  Contrast that with the fate of Gilad Shalit, a young Israeli soldier kidnapped from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza by Hamas agents. Six years later, he is still kept in Gaza (if he is still alive). Also contrast the case of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped across the Israeli-Lebanon border in 2006 by Hizballah sparking a border war. As part of the cease fire, Israel got its soldiers back-their mutilated and tortured bodies. Who did Hizballah ever punish for that?

Rachel Maddow is part of a disgusting team of liberals at MSNBC who hate George W Bush with a passion -so much that they produce this hit piece on the war on terror even as they walk a careful tightrope not to criticize President Obama. The only oblique mention of Obama I picked up (without his name being mentioned) was a reference to the fact that Gitmo is still open today. That must be Bush's fault too.