9/11 DENIAL: In reference to that stupid French book that declares the attack on the Pentagon a fraud, James S. Robbins, who witnessed the attack, writes a piece today for the "National Review" equating 9/11 denial with Holocaust denial:

In both cases, the premises of their originators are indefensible, which forces them into a position where they have to throw the facts overboard to sustain their arguments. But notions like this are kept alive by people who have a predisposition to believe them, those who have pre-existing grudges and will engage in whatever reality-denying behavior justifies their baseline prejudices.

And after describing the horrific crash, Robbins says this:

So, of course, I take it personally when a half-wit like Meyssan comes along saying it did not happen. And he is so evidently at war with reality that one is tempted not to waste time with him...It would be easy to ignore him. But that would be a mistake. This is another front in what President Bush called "the war to save civilization itself." ... When such ideas are allowed to stand, they take root among the impressionable or those predisposed to think the worst. And especially now that communications technology has made it possible to give global reach to the bizarre and archive it forever, it is essential for men and women of reason resolutely to counter the delusions of the fringe element.