With the 5-year anniversary of 9/11 upon us – has it really been that long? – I’m sure there’ll be lots of refection and commentary from every corner of the political spectrum. You know, after a while you just get tired of all the drum-beating – on both sides – and simply want to find a place in your own heart and soul where one can pause and reflect on those we have lost and the kind of world we might be living in if not for the terrorist attacks that occurred that day.

Of course, some people would rather play the ostrich role and not even do that. Regardless of how you feel about the attacks and the politics that have followed it, this “9/11 commemorative program” by the Kitsap Regional Library in Bremerton, WA really is pathetic (my bolding):

The library is hosting live performances Sunday and Monday at all nine of its branches. Kitsap Regional Library has teamed up with Seattle-based Living Voices to produce the series, “We the People.”

The event will not focus on the terrorist attacks. Instead, the library is commemorating the anniversary by exploring the region’s diverse population.

“We’re not going to show footage of the attacks,” said library spokeswoman Audrey Newell. “We didn’t think that would really help anyone. We’d rather discuss who we are as Americans.”

A common theme of the one-hour performances is immigration. On Bainbridge Island, for example, the performance will offer a look at the Northwest at the turn of the 20th century through the eyes of a young Swedish immigrant. In Kingston, residents will see what it was like during the 1930s and ’40s to be a Navajo girl struggling to keep her culture while living in a government-run boarding school.

This is absurd. Not the idea itself, which is a program one might expect on any given weekend of the year, really. But to focus on something so trite and disconnected from reality on a weekend where we as a nation commemorate the loss of so many of our citizens – some undoubtedly immigrants in their own right – is to push the bounds of absurdity and stupidity. And in nearby King County, WA you have this nonsense. (Hat tip: Michelle)

I wish I could say this was an isolated case, but I think the hatred of the President by some, if not most, of the loonbat Left has blurred their ability to recognize and comprehend the tenacity and willingness of our enemies to do whatever it takes to destroy the freedoms and values we in the West cherish and take all too much for granted. And, like President Bush said the other day, we have to be a successful 100% of the time; they only have to be successful once. To color this danger in cozy, comfortable “can’t be all just get along” terms and hope to dialogue away our differences is not only foolhardy, but dangerous. You can’t dialogue with someone willing to blow themselves up and take and innocent men, women, and and children with them like they did nearly five years ago.

Listen up, you folks in Bremerton and King County – this is the mentality we’re up against. If it can happen there, it can happen here – again. And they ain’t willing to talk…

And, from the sounds of it, they’re still trying.