Yesterday,
Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky (at right, apparently posing for a
Wall Street Journal headshot)
weighed in and said we need another 9/11 to make sure the public knows how important it is to stop terrorism. (Because when given the tools to fight terrorists,
the government just does a bang-up job.) I don't really get the reasoning -- "In order to stop terrorists from killing Americans some terrorists have to kill Americans!" -- but, hey, people can write what they want to.
Anyway, according to Shawn Mullen, former Daily News staffer and blogger, Stu's column caused quite a stir on the Internets yesterday: Stu Bykofsky, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News... has set off a sh*tstorm by writing that he is hoping for another 9/11 terrorist attack because it would bring Americans together again." Oh! A sh*tstorm!
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