Memories of Leftist Glee About 9/11
09/12/2018
The images of the innocent people jumping to their deaths from the Twin Towers evoked no sympathy from these individuals. Instead, they saw only poetic justice in American commercial airplanes plunging into American buildings packed with people. For my leftist acquaintances, the jihadist terror war gave promise of succeeding in a project in which Communism had failed: to obliterate the capitalist system itself. "The U.S. brought this on itself," they stated repeatedly -- and with scornful self-satisfaction.