[QUOTE="borgmaster"]
The thing with 9/11 is, it wasn't that 2,993 people died, it was the way they did it.
for a moment, think about it. Giant cans full of everyday people and jet fuel were thrown into two of the tallest buildings in the US and the center of America's military at around 200 (or whatever it was) mph. Hundreds of the people that died were stuck above where the planes hit the two skyscrapers and were hopelessly screwed. emergency service personal who tried to go and get those people were killed when the two 110-story buildings collapsed onto the center of the financial capitol of the largest western country. It wasn't like Pearl Harbor where it was a nation-state attacking the military of another nation-state, this was seemingly a personal attack on every single american.
The thing with America is that it is angry and spiteful, we won't "get over it" until there is a long trail of dead-bodies and a few oppled governments. The reason why you might might be wanting to sweep it under the rug of history is because of the reaction to it was exploitive and corrupt. But don't undermine the significance of a generation defining event becasue of the actions of a lame-duck administration the was in over it's head.
theone86
Still don't think that adds anything to the argument that 9/11 is more significant that other tragedies. Look at Russia's conflicts with its former Soviet states, innocent civilians die because of Russian imperialism which they had nothing to do with. Look at African nations that are in constant conflict, farmers, fishermen, and everyday workers die because of the pursuit of capitalist wealth by greedy and amoral individuals. Look at Middle Eastern conflicts, centuries-old fueds being played out across conflict zones with first world intervention only exacerbating things. All around the world average people are dying because of conflicts they have little to nothing to do with, because they just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and somehow I'm supposed to feel more sympathetic towards 9/11 victims because they lived in a country that was privelged enough not to have that constant threat surrounding them? Not gonna happen. And again, what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Two non-military targets killing over 200,000 civilians in heavily populated metropolitan areas withoutany warning other than a vague threat during wartime. Those people were just going about their daily lives as well, and all of the sudden two major cities are wiped off the map. I'm not here to discuss the rights or wrongs of the bombings, but I just don't see how teh same people who argue that 9/11 is especially tragic could be so in favor of nuclear strikes against civilian populations as a necessity.
wait, I see the misunderstanding here. I'm saying that it is significant to America, the rest of the world doesn't have to give a ****. But Americans ought to have recognition for it because it will frame their lives in some way or another for the foreseeable future.
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