A lot of great posts around the blogosphere today on 9/11 anniversary. Here's the best bit I ran across, from a Victor Davis Hanson essay (because it really all comes down to precisely this, doesn't it?):

We must neither presume that comfort and security are our birthrights and are guaranteed without constant sacrifice and vigilance, nor expect that peoples outside the purview of bourgeois liberalism share our commitment to reason, tolerance, and enlightened self-interest

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