Giuliani Politicizing 9/11 for Partisan Gain
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In a vile new low, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has said he expects bringing the accused 9/11 mastermind to justice will directly cause new terror attacks on New York. Mr. Giuliani is now seeking to use the memory of 9/11 and the very real and lasting trauma felt by so many people, to sow fear and provoke a partisan backlash against Pres. Obama, whose Justice Dept. is actually seeking a conviction after 8 years of inaction. For Giuliani to use the tragic memory of that day as a political bludgeon is bad enough, but to come so close to openly calling for and thinking aloud another attack is a new low in callous Machiavellian politicking.
It is unclear if Giuliani had any motive other than to slander Pres. Obama and incite a visceral fear response from the public, but Giuliani has made a post-political life and fortune for himself, talking up terrorism and defaming American security and intelligence personnel for much of the last 8 years. And while being the only mayor in America whose city was hit twice by terrorists in his watch, he has sought to profit from his “expertise” on counter-terrorism and security matters.
His own flirtation with a presidential bid was cut short to a large extent because he referred to the 9/11 attacks as part of his credentials so often it had come to be taken as a pattern of poor taste rhetorical manipulation of the event and of the human grief associated with it. This latest smear on the Obama administration, coming in the form of Mr. Giuliani’s nearly calling for a terrorist act to bolster his argument, is, however, his most egregious and unsympathetic attack on the human dignity of the American people and of the victims of that horrible day.
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