So much BULL out there today

[kpete]

What happened 20 years ago was not a Kumbaya Moment any more than 1/6/21 was a "Normal Tourist Visit".

[Sherman A1]

1. Precisely

I won’t watch any of the coverage on any noise station.

Saw it all the first time, live don’t need to see the re-run with blathering commentary.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I feel the same way. I remember it quite well and don't need to relive it.

[gab13by13]

2. When will people realize,

the right wing controls the narrative on all of cable news, leaving out CNN and MSNBC is a mistake. If CNN and MSNBC were truly fair and balanced we would be seeing daily coverage of thousands of more people who are dying in red states, in areas that voted for MF45, 10 times more people dying. We don't see that plastered all over CNN and MSNBC because it would run contrary to the far right narrative that vaccines and masks should be voluntary. It runs contrary to the recent outrage at president Biden's recent EO's mandating vaccines.

Wake me when CNN and MSNBC make a big deal out of this.

[Sherman A1]

5. Realized that long ago

And don’t watch any cable noise.

[llmart]

4. I won't be watching any of it.

I am so thankful we have options with Netflix, Roku, etc.

The networks are going to rewrite history once again. It's what they do. No, we didn't come together after 9/11. If that were true, we wouldn't be where we're at right now. Started with Dubya's "You're either with us or against us" nonsense.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

6. Exactly

It was the start of over-the-top fake patriotism used as a political weapon.

[kpete]

7. "used"

They "used" our sorrow and anguish to reek more hatred and havoc onto our world

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Agreed.

I'm 100% with you.

[JPPaverage]

9. It really galls me when people refer to this as a "holiday"

No. A holiday is a day to celebrate, like Christmas or Thanksgiving.
This was the worst day in the history of our country and should not be considered as a "holiday".

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. It could be a holiday in the spirit of Memorial Day. Not a celebration.

But, it should just be a day to remember, and not a special holiday. IMHO, there were worse days in the country's history: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of JFK, the attack on Fort Sumter, for example.

[sanatanadharma]

11. 9/11 was the results of actions taken by people with desires

Desire motivated the commission of the attack by Al Queda.

Desire motivated the Bush administration's omission of ignoring warnings prior to the attack.

Desire motivated the PNAC people in the Bush administration who wanted a Pearl Harbor moment as justification for their plans to invade Iraq.

No one, on either side, could foresee nor control the consequences (results) of their choices and actions.
Too many on our side sold their souls justifying their desires to see others tortured and killed.

[BannonsLiver]

14. I don't buy the "both sides" angle at all.

[Sogo]

18. Ditto.

[paleotn]

12. It released tons of primal anger and reactions that were less than productive....

Coupled with and driven by American arrogance. How dare ANYONE attack the exceptional!! At the same time, other peoples around the globe had a word for similar mass casualty, terrorist attacks. They called it...Thursday or sometimes Friday or Saturday or Sunday.....

[BannonsLiver]

15. What other mass casualty terrorist events on foreign soil are comparable to 9/11?

I’ve spent a lot of time out of the country and 9/11 sure was not like any “Thursday or sometimes Friday or Saturday or Sunday.....” I’ve ever spent abroad.


“How dare ANYONE attack the exceptional!”

What does this mean? That people shouldn’t have been outraged or upset by what happened because some aspects of America (and Americans) suck? What’s your point?

[paleotn]

16. My point is quite clear I think

Yes, being outrage, upset and remembering is justified. But like much that's American, it's s constant stream, way over the top and driven by our oversized pride and view of ourselves. Like our terrorist disaster was far, FAR worse and far, FAR more worthwhile in remembering than the thousands of other such events elsewhere.

And when it comes to grinding, mass casualty, day in day out terrorist atrocities, I guess you never spent a few months in Iraq back in the 2000's. Afghanistan over the last 20 years. Or a multitude of other countries that have suffered periods of terrorist attacks, month after month, day after day it seems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents

[underpants]

13. Worst National security failure in the history of organized government

but don’t anyone say “On his watch” no no no that would be unAmerican.

[lame54]

17. It seems We Forgot