Politicizing 9/11

As I recently read a few recent commentaries by Jeff Robbins and was agreeing with his opinions, I thought that was odd. However, his most recent commentary (“On 9/11 anniversary, Bush warns of extremists within,” Boston Herald, Sept. 14) showed he must have had a momentary lapse in his usual wokeness.

What he viewed as former President George W. Bush’s warning at Shanksville, Pa., was pure politicalization both from Bush and Robbins. It is a sad statement of today’s political leadership that speakers would trivialize what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, by comparing it to the Jan. 6 riot that happened at the US Capitol.

I condemned what those rioters did on Jan. 6. It was an ugly sight to watch in real time on television. However, it was not an insurrection or comparable to 9/11, not by a long shot.

What was absent on the 20th anniversary was the botched exit of the wrong war in the wrong country under the Bush administration. Liberals are still trying to blame former President Trump for the whole exit mess from Afghanistan when the fault lies with Joe Biden and the Democrats who screwed things up six ways to Sunday.

It is time for our political leaders, members of the media and even now, I guess, generals who would rather talk about domestic terrorism, Trump and the “deplorables” out there who aren’t buying their spin anymore.

We have become a divided United States thanks to the elites out there who seem to be enjoying their divide and conquer routine. We need to get back to being “September 12 Americans” again, when we were one people rather than warring tribes.

Personally I read Jeff Robbins in this paper for savage amusement.

— Sal Giarratani, East Boston