Writing for National Review online, historian Victor Davis Hanson outlines some of the post 9/11 mysteries he thinks are quite enlightening the to the nation’s response to 9/11. Here’s the piece. Here are some highlights:

THE NATIONAL SECURITY RAMP UP AND AMERICANS’ VIEW THAT SAFETY IS A BIRTHRIGHT THAT SHOULD COST LITTLE:

“It was almost as if the more we caricatured the often silly security measures at the airport, blasted Guantanamo Bay, and ridiculed renditions, the more we assumed that our security, initially thought permanently imperiled (“not if, but when”), was once again our birthright. Someone somewhere did something that kept us safe, but we were strangely afraid to acknowledge that there was any utility in the very protocols and foreign operations that had weakened our enemies to the point of an inability to replicate 9/11.”

THE LEFT’S ATTEMPTS TO DISMANTLE THE BUSH RESPONSE TO 9/11 ATTACK TO THE PERIL OF THE SAFETY OF AMERICANS. AND THEN, AFTER RECKLESSLY CAMPAIGNING ON THE MICHAEL MOORE AND CODE PINK AGENDA, BARACK OBAMA FINDS OUT THE TERRORISTS ARE REAL AND AFFIRMS ALL OF THE BUSH PRINCIPLES.

That about-face, I think, was the most radical political development of the last quarter-century, and was treated with near silence by the media. It was as if Moveon.org, Code Pink, and Michael Moore had simply vanished from the face of the earth sometime around January 2009….A cynic would say that the anti–War on Terror movement did its job in helping to elect Barack Obama, and then moved on, so to speak, when Barack Obama likewise did his job in continuing his predecessor’s anti-terrorism policies.

WE KILLED A BUNCH OF BAD GUYS AND TOOK THEM OFF THE BATTLEFIELD.

We are in a new age when we “beat” or “subdue” the enemy but do not admit that we do that often through killing him. The Iraq War has become a story about troop levels, hearts and minds, and training the Iraqis, but not much about a shooting war in which thousands of jihadists lost.

WATERBOARDING KSM SAVED LIVES. HE WAS A CONFESSED AND PROVEN TERRORIST. OBAMA KILLS SUSPECTED ONES WITH HELLFIRE MISSILES.  WHY IS DICK CHENEY “A WAR CRIMINAL” AND THERE’S NARY A PEEP ABOUT OBAMA? 
READ THE REST OF VICTOR DAVIS HANSON’S PIECE HERE.