{"id":5393,"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2010-05-15T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:25:59","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-rejoice-in-terror%e2%80%99s-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/05\/let%e2%80%99s-rejoice-in-terror%e2%80%99s-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Rejoice in Terror\u2019s Benefits!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On <\/strong>May 6, The New York Post ran the following story on its front page: \u201cTHANKS, FAISAL! Inept terror thug saves 900 cop jobs\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how many cops were going to be cut before Faisal\u2019s botched bid at Times Square terror. His effort prompted the city to restore $55 million to the NYPD, saving those jobs and making New York a safer place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though The Post didn\u2019t mention it, Faisal wasn\u2019t able to save 6,700 teaching jobs, 75 senior centers, 20 fire companies, nurses in elementary schools, and an unknown number of day-care centers and other programs for children, due to be cut by Mayor Bloomberg this year.<\/p>\n

But this still seems like a good time to pause and reflect on all the blessings we have received from Terror and the war thereon.<\/p>\n

Here is the short list of \u201cthank you\u2019s\u201d I\u2019d like to see from other terror beneficiaries who have plenty of reason to be grateful:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2002A much-belated “God Bless You!” from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who on Sept. 10, 2001, announced that the Pentagon had \u201cmisplaced\u201d $2.3 trillion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks, Osama! Your timing couldn\u2019t have been better if I had planned it myself! In the chaos that followed, no one ever asked about all that money \u2014 and they still haven\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2002A big high-five from Larry Silverstein, who took possession of the twin towers just two months before the attacks and who collected $4.55 billion in insurance money for World Trade Center\u2019s One and Two and $861 million for the third building to collapse that day, World Trade Center Seven. (For those who may have forgotten or never known, WTC 7 was not hit by a plane, had only minor damage and had just a few small fires burning inside it when it mysteriously collapsed into its own footprint around 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you so much! I know I\u2019m only a small investor in this Terror thing, but I\u2019m truly grateful for whatever crumbs that fall from the Big Terror table!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2002Here\u2019s a heartfelt salute from the senior officers of our Armed Forces, who had run clean out of enemies by the turn of the millennium:<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, Terror! When Soviet Communism collapsed, our whole reason for being collapsed with it. This wonderful, permanent war against \u2018fear itself\u2019 has a lot more juice than the War on Pinkos ever had! We have the largest military empire the world has ever seen, and we owe at least half of it to you!”<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2002A hearty handshake from the shareholders and chief executive officers of Raytheon, McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing and the countless junior members in good standing of the Military-Industrial Complex:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo al-Qaida, Pakistani intelligence, and the CIA: Many thanks! Your inflated threats and geopolitical tinkering have meant inflated profits for us! And thanks, of course, to the taxpayers of America. The buck starts with you!”<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2002And here\u2019s a special thank you from the National Security State as a whole to the American people: \u201cThanks for swallowing what is so clearly a fairy tale (spiced up with real death!). It\u2019s been so great for us, and incidentally has kept the public very safe (give or take a few teachers, children\u2019s programs and innocent bystanders).<\/p>\n

Thanks, Terror! If you didn\u2019t exist, we\u2019d have to invent you!<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2010 The Providence Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

GO TO ORIGINAL \u2013 THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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