He was probably too busy watching the rebellion on the Mall in D.C... from a distance, with binoculars, of course. :)

9/11 wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a man-caused disaster.

I sometimes wonder why President Bush just didn't send a whole bunch of missiles towards Mecca, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and all the other "problem" countries. And then put every Muslim in the USA into a detention camp like they did to the Japanese during WWII.

Favill, you're an idiot!

911 was the result of escaped Area51 creatures with Canadian liberals running sidesaddle, specially Khretien

Thanks, Phil. I know you picture yourself as one of the fellows Wafa Sultan describes below.

As a great man once said: "...if you are willing to kill me, then let's assume that you will lie to me..."

Wafa Sultan says: "The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force."

and...

However, I have found myself fighting on two fronts. The first front is against Islamists, a daunting fight indeed. But the other front is one shaped by too many uninformed individuals who like to view themselves as open minded “progressives”. They seem to somehow claim superiority on compassion, on peace, on open-mindedness and on appreciation of other cultures. Regarding themselves as tolerant, free thinking individuals, they avoid questioning Muslims’ harmful intentions. They restrict themselves to self-criticism, and make politically-correct excuses for Islamism. Regrettably, they show their indisputable acceptance of ‘others’ at the expense of the public’s responsibility to learn the truth about Islam’s detrimental tenets.

Justthinkin, I should have mentioned Salim Mansur as well as Tarek Fatah.

Yeah re the 420. Although it never made me vote left, it did convince me one night that my roommate was, for some reason, a Volkswagon Beetle.

"But the other front is one shaped by too many uninformed individuals who like to view themselves as open minded “progressives”. They seem to somehow claim superiority on compassion, on peace, on open-mindedness and on appreciation of other cultures. Regarding themselves as tolerant, free thinking individuals, they avoid questioning Muslims’ harmful intentions. They restrict themselves to self-criticism, and make politically-correct excuses for Islamism. Regrettably, they show their indisputable acceptance of ‘others’ at the expense of the public’s responsibility to learn the truth about Islam’s detrimental tenets."

Favill, I'm not a "progressive" but I do make the distinction between innocent civilians regardless of whatever identity they may prescribe to and terrorists whose heinous acts of terror against mostly civilian targets are deplorable.

You on the other hand want to indiscriminating kill whole swaths of people because of their religion regardless of their guilt or relation to terror. There is a word for that. It's called genocide.

See, there are these things called individual responsibility and collective guilt. I believe in the former while you believe in the latter. I believe holding those responsible for acts of terror while you believe in punishing anybody on the basis of the most trivial of associations with terrorists.

Phil,

And those 3000 people in the Twin Towers 8 years ago were what exactly? What you don't seem to understand about Muslims is that unless you make a very real and painful point to them not to f*ck with you they will see anything less as weakness and it will provoke them to a bolder attack the next time.

Why do you think Iran is desperately trying to get their hands on a nuke? Perhaps they're planning to spend billions of dollars to provide nuclear reactors to generate electricity? Or perhaps they want to use it to make nuke devices to use on us? or Israel? What would you call it then? I don't believe in acting like a cop (ie. the crime has to be committed before you react)because it gives the bad guy the initiative. I say kill the bad guy, his friends and most of their families before they do something to us...this may dissuade other bad guy wannabe's from doing bad things.

If President Bush said something to the effect that if any NATO country gets hit by an Islamist attack the nukes fly towards Mecca and every Muslim country that harbours The Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Al Queda has 30 days to kill them all or they gets nuked...what do you think the Mohammedans would do?

I just deleted 17 comments from this thread. Take your trolling and troll-baiting elsewhere. This isn't a chat group.

Never forget. Never.

Any time that you're tempted to forget, find a piece like that one and read it, or find a video of people jumping out of the WTC. This is what civilization is up against.

This eyewitness account actually fills in a great deal of the gaps with respect to the destructive forces that were at work within the buildings themselves...things we didn't see in any of the videos from the outside. What we saw was a plane disappearing into a fairly neat hole in the side of the building, followed by a spectacular fireball burning itself out in the air on the other side. What we didn't see was that much of the kinetic energy of the aircraft would have been expended on the central core itself, plus much of the explosive force from the exploding fuel would have to have been transmitted up and down the core via the elevator shafts.

"It was too much for any one person to filter" is an understatement. I wasn't even there and I sat staring at my TV for a good 3 weeks afterward. That's probably why a lot of people take refuge in wild theories...it helps them come to grips with an event, the enormity of which is difficult to comprehend.

Yeah, like Blackbeard said, just watching it live on TV was mind boggling. I cannot imagine that the survivors and New Yorkers went through.

I remember it being a Tuesday but I was off work for some reason when my son called and told me to turn on the television. I tuned in just in time to see the second hit and wondering what in the world was going on.

In my day I've managed to see Jack Ruby kill Oswald, Neil Armstrong step on the moon and the start of Gulf War 1 & 2, all live, but watching the tragedy of 9-11 unfold will be forever etched in my mind.