Forgetting too quickly, Mr. President?

[saxikath]

This is an excerpt from the speech that W gave on September 20, 2001 (entire speech, which compared to what he says these days, actually sounds pretty sane, is here).

And on behalf of the American people, I thank the world for its outpouring of support.
America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
We will not forget South Korean children gathering to pray outside our embassy in Seoul, or the prayers of sympathy offered at a mosque in Cairo.
We will not forget moments of silence and days of mourning in Australia and Africa and Latin America.
Nor will we forget the citizens of 80 other nations who died with our own. Dozens of Pakistanis, more than 130 Israelis, more than 250 citizens of India, men and women from El Salvador, Iran, Mexico and Japan, and hundreds of British citizens.

Mr. President, is your idea of remembering that support to ignore our allies now?

Comments

[navrins]

Is there something specific that inspired this post today, or just world events in general?

[saxikath]

Mostly just my finding that speech while looking for documents to base social studies questions on. (No, I'm not using that speech.)

Much too much credit

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Figure he doesn't remember much after the teleprompter screen goes blank.