Steve Benson for September 10, 2018

Beautiful tribute. No political comment needed. Nothing to add. Thank you, Steve.

P.S. Note that the 2018 calendar is the same as the 2001 calendar. 9/11 occurred on a Tuesday in 2001; the anniversary will again be on a Tuesday this year.

The saddest part to me was baby Bush turning a criminal act into a political one, thereby legitimizing it.

Never Forget.

Well handled, Mr. Benson.

If M. pan.zagloba isn’t a troll, but just someone who got his/her button pushed and reflexively posted/replied (something most of us have done at some point; the moving finger writes…), then I suggest a simple acknowledgement from M. zagloba that Mr. Benson does have a consistent take on these issues, and that he is not glorifying horror. In absence of such, then game, set and match to Mr. Benson.

Well, if anybody cares, I like the cartoon very much. I don’t much care for pan. Thank you, Steve.

I’m with you, Steve. Why did Pan read so much into a simple, sad remembrance.

Steve Benson, Your thoughts and art are always ‘on spot’. However, I notice that those who disagrees LOVE to argue.

Osama bin Laden was a much, much, much better Republican than George W. Bush. He got way more bang for the buck. He managed to kill his 3000 Americans for about a million bucks, or $333 each. Bush offed 4500 Americans in Iraq (the wrong country) at a cost of $1.5 trillion, or $333,333,333 each.

Lie #1: Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.

Lie #2: Osama bin Laden’s hiding out in Afghanistan.

Truth #3: The Mossad got Adolf Eichmann out of Argentina using covert intelligence gathering and a black-ops strike force.

Truth #4: That’s exactly how the US got bin Laden in Pakistan.

Truth #5: Israel did not bomb the crap out of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile just because they happened to be next to Argentina and shared a language and religion.

Truth #6: That sure didn’t stop the United States.

Truth #7: Bin Laden killed 3000 people in a single day.

Truth #8: Eichmann killed only 2700 people in a single day. But he did it for 1000 days straight.

Truth #9: Israel put Eichmann on public trial, gave him the benefit of counsel and witnesses in his defense, found him guilty under international law, and hanged him.

Truth #10: The US can’t be bothered to even put poor schmucks denounced by jealous nabors on trial but instead keeps them locked up indefinitely in a legal limboland. You think they were going to give bin Laden a speaking platform? Ha!

In Trump’s rinse and repeat world I’m sure he’ll bring up the thousands of people he alone saw cheering as the towers fell. He Must keep the trumpers happy. #Sad.

I am okay with remembering the day – lost a good friend (a firefighter) in the attack. However, in general, we tend to want to remember only those things that make us as a society look either like a victim (think 9/11 or Pearl Harbor) or like a hero. It would be good if we would also remember the historic harms we have done (so that we might better make reparation and reconcile).

Steve, Beautifully drawn – Thank you

They remember 9/11 most honestly who have no means to forget it.

Steve—the drawing is stark, spare and powerful.It speaks more volumes than all the rhetoric we hear and see today. Thanks for your clarity.

I mourn all the victims, but especially the ones who were going up when everyone else was coming down.

I mourn the victims, and the perpetrators who were Saudis and four other TERRORISTS from no state organization, leading us to our longest war, against Afghanistan, and Iraq, and our loss of troops to war, or even more, to damage done by our contractors poisoning our troops, and other incompetence of war against countries that did nothing to us.

We should learn to pick our friends and enemies with greater care. Hmm, Putin and Kim vs the EU, Japan, and others who supported us on 9/11.