Arizona's 9/11 Memorial - What a Disgrace

This is pathetic.

The monument was "supposedly put in place to remember the losses of 9/11, an evil attack on our nation that killed thousands of innocent Americans," Len Munsil said Monday at a rally near the capitol. "Instead it reminds us of American failings and American mistakes, real and imagined before and after 9/11. This memorial is a tribute to moral relativism."

The 54 laser-etched inscriptions on an arc that circles the structure include many from a Sept. 11, 2001, timeline, while others trace events following the terrorist attacks. Topics range from the deployment of 216 Arizona firefighters to the World Trade Center to questions of whether the federal agencies could have uncovered the plot.

The memorial includes quotations like: "You don't win battles of terrorism with more battles" and highlights chronological events such as "Congress questions why CIA & FBI didn't prevent attacks" and "Erroneous US airstrike kills 46 Uruzgan (Afghanistan) civilians."

Right below an inscription noting that President Bush addressed the nation the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, is one stating that an unidentified terrorist leader addressed the American people in 2004, Munsil said.

This "memorial" is equivalent to putting up a memorial for the Pearl Harbor attacks and commemorating the firebombing of Tokyo or the Nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Munsil is completely correct, this is a tribute to moral relativism in its most inappropriate guise.

The governor actually defends the monument:

Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano defended the memorial as a tribute to 9/11 victims and first-responders and said some inscriptions were being taken out of context.

"I'm just sorry that they're trying to politicize 9/11. That's just wrong," she said.

Among the other inscriptions: "FBI agent issued July 2001 warning in 'Phoenix Memo,'" "Steve of Scottsdale wrote songs for brother, Robby" and "Violent acts leading U.S. to war, 05-07-1915, 12-07-41, 08-04-64 & 09/11-01."

How are the inscriptions being taken out of context. The context is a memorial for those that died in a terrorist attack on the US. The inscriptions clearly are laying the blame for the attacks on the US itself and then adding insult by posturing the actions by the US in response as terrorist actions themselves. I would love to have a debate with this imbecile on this topic. Politicizing 9/11? No shit, but only in response to this condemnation of our country while masking it as a honorary to those that died in the attack.

The monument is a justification for graffiti.