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Hard times make for strange bedfellows

I have always felt second to none in my detestation of former NY mayor Ed Koch, who was for me the unalloyed stereotype of pragmatic municipal amorality. And yet, I found the following Ed Koch quote on the sublimely named Communist Vampires Newswire regarding the WTC twin towers:

I think we should rebuild them exactly the same way that they were.  They are the symbol of New York.  In a way, we crush the terrorists by rebuilding them.  They thought they had destroyed us.  I think this shows we are crushing them.
– Ed Koch, former New York mayor (1978 – 1989)

Absolutely true. Even better would be to build the largest building(s) in the world. To keep the site as some maudlin garden of remembrance would be a colossal mistake. We must indeed remember the fallen but let us also remember that they fell engaged in World Trade and in doing so made the world a better place more than any ten NGO’s you might care to mention.

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