Daily Kos: "9/11 just another tragedy"

This is from a Kos diarist calling him/her/itself "earthmissinglink":

The bloodiest day in American history was and we hope always will be September 17, 1862. Almost 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers perished in the Battle of Antietam that day. Read that figure slowly and then compare the figure to the events of September 11th, 2001. The latter doesn't even compare . . .

And of course, earthquakes have taken their toll (more than seven hundred dead in San Franscisco in 1906), as does crime-related violence, AIDS, and many other horrors every year.

Perspective may have been lost on September 11th because NYC and D.C. are national media centers. The sense of proportionality may have been lost because we live in an image-driven age. Yet as we recover from the hysteria, histrionics, and rampant opportunism those horrible attacks spawned, it does some good to look back and see they are in no way unique and are even small compared to some other horrible events in our nation's history.

And we must put the Republican exploitation of those attacks to an immediate end. Let us win this November on things that we now face and need to be corrected rather than events that will be more than five years old then.

[****] happens. It happened in 1793, it happened in 1900, it happened in 1941, it happened in 2001, and it will happen this year, next year, and forever. Tragedy always will be with us. My intent isn't to be harsh, but to be realistic. It is time to get over it. And...

It is time to move on, in every sense of that phrase.

What exactly is involved in moving on "in every sense of that phrase"? Voting for Hillary? Ending Airport security? Abandoning Iraq? What else does this "new perspective" lead to? Does this mean all the suicide bombings in Iraq don't really matter? And what about, chas veshalom, a nuclear or biological attack on the US? Or maybe, what the heck, Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't any worse than five years' worth of auto accidents.

Tags: 9/11, terror, statistics, Kos