Obligatory 9/11 Post

In this case I think Americans can be forgiven for any dramatic hyperbole about this day and any ignorance of equal or greater tragedy in the rest of the world. When your house is on fire you are not worried about somebody else’s house on fire.

It is a date which will live in infamy probably more so than the attack on Pearl Harbor. That was a military attack on a military base. And the Americans were able to exact a horrific revenge. They will never be able to collectively punish the entire race or nationality of their enemy this time. It is easy to fight a war with another country. It is almost impossible to fight a war with a disparate group of anonymous people whose only common denominator is a lust for your destruction.