Lest We Forget

Even if you didn't think of it yourself, it will be pretty hard not to see something today that will remind you of what happened 6 years ago today, on September 11th, 2001.

There will be lots of different prognostications about the event and what has happened since. A read worthy of your time can be found on Dave Markowitz's "Blog O'Stuff".

My own thoughts are in a different direction. I have heard that back in the days of The American Revolution, somewhere between 15% - 30% of the colonialists were pro-revolution, a similar number favored staying British, and the rest were in the middle. Probably much like folks today, there were more concerned with making a living, keeping their kids out of trouble and just wanting a peaceful life.

Many today tell me that only a small percentage of Islamic believers are the radicals we might catigorize as "Islamofacists." That most followers of Islam are just like us, they seek peace, want to work at getting ahead and want a better life. That may be true, I don't know.

What troubles me is this. If a minority of the "Americans" living in the colonial area that became the original 13 States could start a revolution that birthed a country, what could a minority of Islamofacists do on a worldwide scale, if they are not fought against, and fought with the goal of winning?

Think on it.