Missing the Point |
Abdul El-Sayed wrote it himself.
Nobody hacked him. Nobody misquoted him. Nobody caught him on a hot mic.
And now apparently the offensive part is that CBS reported it.
El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has some old social media posts he’d probably prefer people didn’t spend much time reading as we approach the 25th anniversary of September 11.
So naturally, people started reading them.
One from 2020 compared the death toll from 9/11 to the death toll from COVID.
But the one that stopped me was written on September 11, 2021.
El-Sayed wrote that he mourned the roughly 3,000 Americans murdered that day — lives taken, as he put it, “in the name of my faith.”
He said he’d spend the following day mourning roughly a million lives lost across three countries “in the name of my country.”
Three thousand Americans murdered by terrorists.
Then America’s wars abroad.
One mourning followed by another.
I’m sorry, but those things don’t belong on the same scale.
You can oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plenty of Americans do. You can believe Washington made catastrophic decisions after September 11. You can argue that innocent people died unnecessarily because of them.
But that’s not what........