Wow, does this conversation take you in circles...@_@
Anyways, yeah, I'm around the middle. This should be remembered, as it was an attack on us. We had, too, every opportunity to stop it as well. I was watching a special on CNN, and they even interviewed Osama saying the stuff. If they'd did that today with someone else threatening us like that, we'd have them bound, gagged, and shipped off to some secret prison or something. Thing is, we had every oppurtunity to stop it, but we didn't. We do like we've done a lot, underestimate our enemy. We underestimated in Vietnam, we underestimated with this, and we underestimated when we went into Iraq.
And, I can agree, we do overemphasize on 9/11 a little too much. I think the only reason, though, is because it's still fresh in our minds and the people that caused it are still looking to get us. As the years go by, most likely, it'll fade, like other things, and so will end that. I know, some people are exploiting an event like this for their own personal gain, which is, to me, just vile. And 9/11 should be a normal day, not only would that defeat purpose of what the Terrorists wanted, but I'm sure the victims would've wanted that. And, if you ask, yes, it is sad that almost 3,000 people died on that day, but we've gotta move on. Being sad forever won't help at all, it won't bring them back. I understand there are wives without husbands, kids without mothers. That is sad, but they will move on. Time heals all wounds. This lesson, I know about firsthand. And, if we were to make it so public, why not do the same thing with Pearl Harbor, then? It was pretty much the same thing. Or the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake? Or Hurricane Mitch, the most deadly hurricane to hit us? Yeah, we do need to tune down on it, but we shouldn't forget it. It should remain in history, but shouldn't stick out so much, like the founding of the nation or anything like that. It happened, it's over, and we repair, we rebuild, we continue.
Yeah, we Americans do think of ourselves as superior to others sometimes, and I really hate that. We're all equal, in every nation. An American is not superior to a Chinese person, nor to a Ukranian, or a South African. We're all the same, but yet with our slowly waining superpower status and everything, we've gotten "cushy and cocky", thinking we're better than others, and that's really ticked off the world. Frankly, I don't blame the world, I've had to put up with people like that before. And I don't like them. Could explain Anti-Americanism around the world, really.
So, yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say about this. I do think it is sad it happened, but it's over, we can't change the past, and we have to move on.
