The 9/11 Lesson America Can’t Afford To Forget
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
The piece doesn’t ease into it. It swings hard: 25 years after 9/11, it says, we’re now living in a country where major Democratic figures are “Islamic terrorist sympathizers,” including the mayor of New York and a Senate candidate in Michigan. That’s a serious charge, and it deserves more than name-calling and heat.
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, a quarter-century after Muslim terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, here is where we currently stand: The mayor of New York is an Islamic terrorist sympathizer. So is the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.
So are congresspeople from New York to Michigan to Minnesota. The West has imported millions of immigrants from
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The piece doesn’t ease into it. It swings hard: 25 years after 9/11, it says, we’re now living in a country where major Democratic figures are “Islamic terrorist sympathizers,” including the mayor of New York and a Senate candidate in Michigan. That’s a serious charge, and it deserves more than name-calling and heat. If you’re going to say “sympathizer,” show the receipts. Which statements, which votes, which meetings, which endorsements, which groups, which fundraising networks? Put it on the table so readers can judge it, not just feel it.
Still, the broader warning lands for a reason. The post-9/11 bargain was simple: America stays open, and our leaders stay alert. Over time, that second part got replaced with polite denial. We’ve watched officials twist themselves into knots to avoid saying obvious things about Islamist extremism, then act shocked when the public stops trusting them on immigration and security. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist doesn’t make us safer. It just makes honest enforcement harder and more controversial when it finally happens.
Where the article starts to blur is the leap from “terror sympathizers” to “the West imported millions of immigrants” as if those are the same story. They aren’t. Most legal immigrants are not the problem, and plenty of Americans who were born here have been radicalized too. But mass immigration without real vetting, real assimilation pressure, and real consequences for bad actors is a choice, not fate. And it’s the kind of choice Democrats keep defending while calling anyone who objects a bigot.
The 9/11 lesson worth keeping is not that we should live in fear or smear people for clicks. It’s that government’s first job is basic competence: border control, intelligence, enforcement, and the willingness to confront extremist ideology without flinching. We can welcome newcomers without importing chaos. If the left wants trust on this issue, it can start by dropping the evasions and taking security as seriously as regular Americans do.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.