The Joulin Rouge (Jolly Roger) flies low today.

Everything is here.

I’m sure every blog site known to man has a post today, about today. I’m just going to list a few observations.

I drove by a restaurant today that normally flies flags of several countries out front. They were all at half mast. After a few seconds of puzzlement, it told me one of two things. Maybe the proprietors were aware enough of flag protocol to know that no flag should fly higher than the country’s flag that you are in.
But more than likely they were acknowledging the fact that so many countries had people who died that day.
Jonah over at NRO had this to say:

But the most obvious evidence that the Arab world is a mess is that they are the ones who have been blowing it since 9/11.

If I try my best to convince a homeless drug addict to get help, I may fail in my efforts to help the guy. But, if I do fail, who really blew it? If I come to him with a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee, in the hopes of persuading him to get cleaned up so I can give him a job and a fresh start and he freaks out that I’m a Cannibalistic Human Corpse Disemboweler (a relative of CHUDs no doubt) and runs away, sure you could say that I blew it. But surely he blew it worse. I can go home to my nice house. He goes home to squalor. And, should the man ever come to his senses, he’d agree that his mistake was far greater than mine.

When Providence offers you a great opportunity to improve your life and the lives of your children and you fail to grasp it, you’ve blown it, big time. We’ve all made decisions in our own lives which — given the clarity of hindsight — we now understand to be colossal blunders. Usually, youth and ignorance are the culprits. But sometimes the elixir of crazy ideas goes to our head. The college Communist who turns down a great job because he doesn’t want to sell out, the guy who won’t follow the girl of his dreams out of pride, the girl who won’t settle down with the right guy because it seems too “traditional,” the shmuck who won’t get off his couch because it’s just so much easier not to: We all know these stories all too well. And, usually, the people at the heart of such tales eventually realize how much they blew it. Few truths are more enduring in the mind than the realization of blown opportunities.

Seeing the word Blown that many times, well, hmmm… gives me thoughts I must say, but not about politikin’. But the point is right. No matter if you are for or against the war, etc., all but the most deluded admit that the Iraqis are much better off now in the grander scheme of things. So they don’t have reliable electric and water at this moment. Neither does millions of people elsewhere in the world. But they survive. So what you hear is just bitching. Within a year the infrastructure should be in place and reliable if they don’t blow things up themselves.

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