Editor's Note: Tune in this Sunday in the U.S. at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. for a special edition of GPS: "9/11 and the World". (If you're watching internationally, tune in Sunday at 4 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. ET and Monday 7 a.m. ET.) Fareed will have a one-on-one with former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and an expert panel on how the world has changed - and not - since September 11, 2001.
By Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Those of us who live in New York have our own special memories of 9/11/2001. I was driving down the Long Island Expressway, about to begin a month-long leave from my job at Newsweek to work on a book. Around 9 a.m., I switched from the CD player to the radio to listen to the news. The reports were chaotic but the outlines of what had happened were clear. I turned around and headed back to New York to get to my wife and 1-year-old boy. As I approached the Triborough Bridge I saw huge barricades and dozens of police cars. All bridges and tunnels were closed. Manhattan had been sealed off. Cell phones were useless that morning because 8 million people were trying to use them simultaneously and the result was cellular gridlock.
I turned around and headed to my destination in Long Island, the home of friends where I had been planning to work on the book. As soon as I got there, I turned on CNN and watched with horror and anger. Finally, I was able to talk to my wife and knew that she and my son were fine. But soon I got a call from one of my dearest friends, my roommate from college. His brother, Chris, worked on one the high floors of the Towers. No one had heard from him. I began calling friends and contacts at the New York Police Department, the FBI, the CIA - anyone who might have any ideas about what I might do to help. I remember looking at the hospital emergency rooms, with beds set up on the streets, waiting for patients to come streaming in. But, of course, they were all empty. No one ever came. Chris was never heard from again.
I guessed instantly who had done it. I had followed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for a few years, through the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa and on the USS Cole in Yemen. In my previous job, as Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, I had published a commentary on bin Laden’s then-little-known fatwah against the United States by the eminent Princeton historian, Bernard Lewis. But I was still stunned by the attack - by its audacity, simplicity and success. In one respect, I was thoroughly American. I imagined that America was an island, a rock, far away from the troubles and infections of the rest of the world. And like most Americans, I felt a shock, an intrusion, a violation.
I put my book project on hold and spent all my spare hours reading and thinking about what had caused the attack. What explained this monstrous evil? I wrote my columns for Newsweek on it and then, a couple of weeks later, I was talking to Newsweek’s Editor, Mark Whitaker, and we decided that I would write a full-length essay explaining the roots of this rage against America. I spent three days and nights in a white heat, reading, researching and writing. The result was a 6,000-word cover essay that ran in Newsweek worldwide titled, “Why They Hate Us?” It got a lot of attention - more than anything I had ever written. It was a moment that Americans - in fact, people around the world - were deeply curious for answers, explanations and understanding. The piece did deal with America and American foreign policy in small measure, but it was mostly about Islam and the Arab world in particular. It was mostly about them.
That’s how 9/11 was discussed and analyzed at the time - mostly with a focus on them. Who are they? Why are they so enraged? What do they want? What will stop them from hating us? That discussion of Islam and the Arab world had its problems, but its was a fruitful discussion, especially once it was joined by Arabs and Muslims themselves. I have often said that the most influential piece of writing of the last decade was a United Nations report, the UNDP’s Arab Development Report, written by Arabs, that documented in granular detail the decay of the Arab world. Once Arabs began to focus on how stagnant and repressive their societies had become, it set off a chain of ideas and actions that I believe has led to the discrediting of al Qaeda and its philosophy and the rise of the Arab Spring.
But if 9/11 was focused at the time on them, ten years later the discussion is mostly about us. What is America’s position in the world today? Are we safer? Are we stronger? Was it worth it? Some of these questions are swirling around because the United States is mired in tough economic times and at such moments, the mood is introspective not outward looking. Some of it is because of the success in the war against al Qaeda. The threat from Islamic terrorism still seems real but more manageable and contained.
But, in large part, the discussion about the United States is the right one to have. History will probably record this period not as one characterized by al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism. That will get a few paragraphs or a chapter. The main story will be about a rapidly changing world and perhaps about the fate of the world’s sole superpower – the United States of America. History might well record 9/11 as the beginning of the decline of America as planet’s unrivaled hegemon.
The day on 9/11, the world was at peace, and the United States strode that world like a Colossus. It posted a large budget surplus. Oil was at $28 a barrel. The Chinese economy was a fifth the size of America’s. Today, America is at war across the globe; it has a deficit of $1.5 trillion and oil is at $115 a barrel. China is now the world’s second largest economy.
Al Qaeda will be forgotten. Few people today remember what the Boer War was about. But what they do know is that, around that time, the dawn of the 20th Century, Great Britain spent a great many of its resources and, more importantly, its attention, on policing the world and sending its troops to Africa and...Afghanistan and Iraq - some things never change. But Britain forgot that the real threat to its power came from the economic rise of Germany and the United States, which were challenging its industrial supremacy.
America needs to get back its energy and focus on its true challenge – staying competitive and vibrant in a rapidly changing world. That requires not great exertions of foreign policy and war but deep domestic changes at home. The danger comes not from them but from us.
For more of my thoughts through the week, I invite you to follow me on Facebook and Twitter and to bookmark the Global Public Square. Also, be sure to tune in this Sunday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT for a special edition of GPS: "9/11 and the World". I'll have a one-on-one interview with former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and I'll convene a group of experts to discuss how the world has changed - and not– since September 11, 2001.
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That's how to reflect.
Some are some are not.
All are affected by their culture, as the USA and europe is affected also.
Possibly a way out of the them and us dilemma is for all countries to EDUCATE their religious crazies!
For science not thousand year old fairy stories should be what we teach our impreesionable children in the 21st century.
For almost 500 years ago a scientist was jailed for his views as to the position of the earth in the solar system . Today people are damned as "deniers" by those zealots pushing another myth, that of man made global warming.
Al Quiada are just a passing side show. After all, can anyone now say where they were when Black September/Red Brigades /IRA caused their last terror attack??
Of course not, but if parents you can remember vividly when your child was born, or got married, or had children of their own.
Time for the world media to get back to reporting what REALLY MATTERS to people, not chase only BAD news across all continents!
-Ismail Haniyeh – (top member of the fakestinian govenment.)
"We condemn the killing of the Arab Muslim holy warrior Osama Bin Laden and we pray that God will have mercy on him."
"The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!"-article 7 hamas official charter-
but we all know HAMAS are just RADICALS !,FATAH members are peace loving people !
youtube>> "FATAH official our goal has never been peace"
Why are you repeating verbatim Perry's nonsense?
Johnny, you are exactly correct. Thank you. Fortunately...worldwide....the iphone/android tied to the internet is turning ALL children away from religion. Religion is the walking dead. Kids all laugh at heck and think heaven is stupid and boring. Basically, they are agnostic or Jewish in actual belief.
My life is worse than 9/11 victims.
As a former Arizona international student, I have to say something in this special day. I worked for Arizona State University as a teaching assistant in 1998. I never got paid. I tried to get my un-paid wages through American legal system. I believed that was the right things to do. However, I started from Arizona Department of Labor, US district court in Arizona, 9th circuit appeal court to US Supreme Court, the justice is not severed. I never get my un-paid wages. Nobody care about us. Every year on this special day, I remember how I have been treated badly. I am still waiting my un-paid wages here.
RT LisaZhang: Holy cow are you serious? You're claiming your life is worse than victims of a horrendous terrorist attack because you didn't get paid for some stupid job?
The solution for the world is the recognition that religion is inherently evil and should be banned from this world.
Jaybird....Lisa has been posting that very same self-indulgent sob story on every 9/11 board in existence. I'm glad to hear she got shafted by her bosses. It sounds like she frickin' deserved it.
Johnny do you know that 9/11 is a hoax and a fraud????? Have you done the research instead of believing the liberal government controlled media...maybe not.?
Why must we dwell on this still-? Yes it was terrible-!! There are so many other terrible things happening to this nation (decline from #1, poor economy, health care, our political parties are a bunch of buffoons each year and keep getting reelected, China is gaining power to become the next world leader over the USA, no country listens to us any longer, bottom line our home land has become weak & lazy). 9/11 will be forgotten like WW1 and where WW2 is nearly. When this generation dies so will the memory of 9/11.
WWI and WWII are hardly forgotten. Geopolitical boundaries are still in place as a result of the outcome of the latter war. Alliances were reinforced and are still in place. Europe speaks multiple languages, including English, because of our victory in WWII. Don't be so dismissive of wars because you might not personally care. 9/11 was a pivotal event for America and much of Europe. It altered the last decade worldwide. The lasting impact remains to be seen, but it will not be simply a generational issue.
I dwell on it because justice has yet to be served. Send Bush and Cheney to Germany so they can recieve a fair trial and be convicted for their crimes OR we could try them here for treason and then hang them. Oh they are guilty, no question in my mind. We could even waterboard them to force a confession. After all its OK to torture criminals.
why should we dwell on it??? I'll tell you why...because justice hasn't been served...The American gov't still have a lot of explaining to do. Those who died on 911 their souls will not rest in peace until justice is served. We all know it's about big oil.
until the next one
9.11 was absolutely nothing. Should have been quietly handed to the FBI. 3,000 sounds like a lot but it is not. WW2 is 'a lot'. 35,000 killed in auto accidents per year...thats a lot. 3000...nothing. Trivial. Should have been small-print news for a few days, footnote in history. Doing otherwise handed victory to whatever enemy it is/was.
"""9/11 was a pivotal event for America and much of Europe. """
And for the Middle East as well.
I'm going to go out on an optimistic limb here and suggest that 9/11 was the catalyst for a future Arab Renaissance, a period where they finally pull themselves out of the bronze age and into the 21st century. A time where they contribute once again to the progress of science, knowledge and achievement..
One can only hope.
9/11 will never beforgotten, nor will any of the wars. People lost lives, families, friends. There is nothing more important. I am sorry for you.
9/11 remains a pivotal moment for the US- where the threat of Peak Oil likely led a shadow leadership in a bout of insanity to commit the unthinkable. We are facing not only Global Warming, but the inevitable and terminal decline of one of the most important substances to civilization, and we still don't have a viable replacement. This is scary stuff. The inability to maintain low energy prices is having a very negative effect on the economy.
There is a way out of this spot between a rock and a hard place. If we venture into our basement of neglected technology, and wipe away 40 years of dust from the most incredible invention ever conceived, we might just pull out of this nosedive in time. This is not science fiction. Back in the 60s, a prototype liquid-fueled nuclear reactor was tested for a number of years. After the plug was pulled in the early 70s in favor of the uranium/plutonium fuel cycle (and superior weapons production), this Green Nuclear technology remains our single best hope for dramatically lowering energy costs.
Historically, 9/11 will mark the beginning of the Long Emergency. Hopefully we'll see our way out of it promptly via the Thorium Race. If not, then we are facing the darkest age yet.
Did you bother to read the article? All the points you made can be directly attributed to 9/11.
Okay US, time to get over this and more on. The government and media play this crap up every year way too much.
I hope someone close to you dies horribly. Then I'll be able to tell you to get over it...you worthless waste of air. I hope you get cancer and rot.
I agree
You are free to get over it if you want. Clearly you live in a vacuum and are incapable of caring about anyone but yourself so please, go watch some cartoons since you have the intellect of a 4 year old.
Fareed supports the attackers and not the attacked.
It is the way of CNN.
How old are you? Maybe one day you will grow up.
For everyone who says every year starting around the end of august till september 13 the media hypes the 9/11 attacks. They do it so much now,so now if there is an attack they would say, they saw it coming
Crap? You, indeed, are swine!
Why does Ameria dwell on September 11th? It was horrible, it was a tragedy that brought our country together for what? A couple years? Now the friends and family members of those victims can't turn on the TV without replaying the events that destroyed their lives and their families. Let the dead reast in peace, and leave it in the past America, move forward.
moving on is hard too do, as a nation it changed us and started the spiral that leads us to today, to forget the past is to repeat it and we can not let things be forgotten but to learn from it and make the right choices so that in generations to come they never have to face a world of terror
TowelHead? Are you talking about the Pope again? He is a towelhead....his is folded nice. Oh, the cat olics really like little boy rod-of-god choir practice. Muslims know how to properly treat a woman. All American men should pray for Muslim control to put women back in their (very subserviant) place intended by God.
Yes, by properly treat you mean make them walk behind you, make them cover themselves completely in the heat of the day while you wear something much lighter, make them submit to your will, make them provide additional witnesses for testimony since their word is somewhat less than worthless, make them submit to your will with a staff or the back of your hand, and if they do not do these things bury her to her chest in the ground and hurl rocks at her until she dies.
TowelHead? Are you talking about the Pope again? He is a towelhead....his is folded nice. Oh, the cat olics really like little boy rod-of-god choir practice. Muslims know how to properly treat a woman. All American men should pray for Muslim control to put women back in their (very subserviant) place intended by God.
Yes, because women are for making babies. Boys are for love, right Wilber?
johnny that is just batsh(t crazy. Islamic Jihad is to blame, along with an entire culture which holds a 500 year-old grudge against a nation which did not even exist at the time coupled with a billion Muslims of inaction. Do not try to convince Americans that their issues are the root cause; we did learn that it is not over the past 10 years.
There is a lot of talk, especially on CNN and Anderson Cooper and his guests that question whether America was weakened by the terror attacks in New York and the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, we spent billions if not trillions in the war against Al qaeda and the Taliban. Yes, Bush2 illegally raided the Social Security Trust Fund and spent 1.7 trillion of American workers money to fund his massive tax cuts to the rich, corporations and endless wars in the middle east. That was unethical and now the seniors and those retiring are now uncertain if all the money they put into Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes will pay for their retirement. If is unethical if not illegal for the Republicans and Tea Party members now refusing to pay that money back and instead propose to eliminate Social Security and Medicare because they now refuse to pay back the money that Bush2 and the Republicans stole. The trillions that went into the endless unfunded wars in the Middle East to get Bin Laden and the terrorists was a financial drain on the American economy and it's citizens, but the conclusion to this barbaric injustice by these secular barbarians was that the seeds of freedom and democracy were planted, and now those seeds are now growing all across the Middle East and the young people now demand freedom and democracy. These ideals were foreign to their parents who lived under Tyrants and Totalitarian goverments for centuries. They now all live in a world that is open and free, and they now yearn Freedom and Democracy and one by one, the Domino Effect is now being felt all across the Middle East and one by one all the Tyrants, Dictators and Totalitarian goverments are falling one by one. The people in the Middle East will eventually realize that freedom and Democracy have a price, and they will have to fight to keep that freedom. The Middle East will never be the same, ever again!
its not the towel that makes them a moron. I mean just look at you.
Milk it!
My life is worse than 9/11 victims
As a former Arizona international student, I have to say something in this special day. I worked for Arizona State University as a teaching assistant in 1998. I never got paid. I tried to get my un-paid wages through American legal system. I believed that was the right things to do. However, I started from Arizona Department of Labor, US district court in Arizona, 9th circuit appeal court to US Supreme Court, the justice is not severed. I never get my un-paid wages. Nobody care about us. Every year on this special day, I remember how I have been treated badly. I am still waiting my un-paid wages here.
Typical foreign student. This country affords her a better education than where she came from and all she can do is whine and complain. Ms Zhang, you obviously have no respect for the USA. Do us a favor and ship out!
No pay no work. You shouldn't do your work at all or you should stop immediately if you didn't receive your wages. And, you should believe God by praying to him, who will bring you the justice you deserve very soon. We all pray for you. Last giving the faith to this great country, where the freedom, democracy, and human rights protect every legal workers. Keep fighting, you shall get what you worked for.
Towely, think back (if you are capable). The Anthrax mailings...domestic...caused the fear and terror. it was so bad that idiots like you transferred it to 1 billion muslims. bet you did not know indonesia has more muslims than any other nation and bet you don't know where that is. back to your impotent false pride and walmart ammo towely.
John Lennon answered:
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Fareed, you are a psuedo-intellectual phony and your broadcast today on 9/11 was utterly shameful. It is time for Americans to turn off CNN and other programming which serves as a mouthpiece for our enemies. While we are at it, we should elect leaders with real backbones who will stop the shipping of US jobs to China and India, stop the theft of our intellectual property by the Chinese government and prepare to do full-scale economic war with those who plot against us. It is time to take the gloves off America, not roll over in defeat as Fareed is suggesting.
Imagine how much love we all can create together, when so few can cause so much pain...
You're all morons if you believe any of the official story on 9/11 including CNN's disinformation. Open your eyes. Check out the link below.
http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/546-remember-building-7-10th-anniversary-ad-campaign-launches-today-.html
REMEMBER THE ALAMO !!!
Fareed: "it has a deficit of $1.5 trillion". No, it's 14 trillion!
True, the Al Qaeda hasn't been able to stage an attack on similar scale since 9/11, but the excessive war on terror has cost billions. The burden of this public good – the global security – is not equally shared and the West stands on its own -broke.
Those who perpetrate the attacks also are "broke" too!
Not just broke, but morally bankrupt.
They have strict religious codes with NO MORALITY, they have strict "family values".
Like selling off their young daughters to relatives, (and killing them to "avenge their honour") if the girl wants to make a choice of partner herself!
Honour killing is frequent and applied mostly to women but men are tragetted too.
Women used as baby machines, with a culture of easy divorce for a man, but none for women.
Western women cry about their "inequalities" but the Sisterhood raise not a peep about their religiously bound sisters!
Hopefully the "Spring" that is breaking out in N Africa will eventually allow those sociaties to cast off their actual and mental dictatorships and emerge from the 12th Century world into the light and freedom of the 21st Century!
Maybe the "Arab Spring" is a start, but reflecting on 9.11 it seems unlikely without a step change in their societal thinking!
The gross national debt (including what is owed to Social Security) is around $14 Trillion. $1.5 Trillion is this fiscal year's budget deficit.
The national debt (14.7 trillion) is only part of the picture. You have to also add in the interest on the debt (3.7 trillion) and the liabilities we have been obligated to, but are unfunded (115.4 trillion!). This adds up to 133.8 trillion.
There are about 312 million of us in this country, To cover everything, every man, woman, and child in this country would have to cut a check for about $429,000. Are you ready to cut your check? Remember to cut one just like it for each member of your family.
If you want to see something that will curl your toes check out www(dot)usdebtclock(dot)org
You might want to skip this if you are prone to cardiac arrest.
1.5 trillion is the budget deficit. 14 trillion is the national debt. You are confusing them.
deficit =/= debt
Smart ass! Debt is debt if you don't silver bullet.
$1 million spent planning/executing 9.11 to place America in complete paralysis of FEAR. It worked.
Endless trillions trying to feel 'safe' in the vast universe.
I saw the enemy and it is us.
Geez, Wilber. You almost sound happy about it. Not very peaceful...
The US is in the greatest decline since its origins, and that is likely to continue, because our government does not care about the country, as a country. The Dems just want to keep everyone on welfare, and have total dictatorial control, and the GOP just wants to have everything set up to make money at any cost.
The government has allowed our manufacturing to all be sent off shore, and the middle class has been destroyed.
Higher education is so expensive, no one can expect to pay of the debt to get a degree, in less than 25 yrs.
Our southern border is no better than a sieve, and illegal immigrants have taken all of the lower class jobs, putting Americans out of work. Our government is encouraging that, so they can grow their voter base, and ensure they remain in power.
Our people have become lazy and shiftless, preferring to play games on computers, rather than o outside and fix their houses, or maintain their yards. Americans eat so unhealthy, and have gotten so fat, that now they claim to be disabled, because they are so fat.
There is absolutely nothing positive about America, today.......absolutely nothing.
Very well said, Rick. Thank you.
re: Rick McDaniel
Exactly. Except that many Americans now EXPECT the government to support them, at any cost. It is said that the Americans don't have work in the lower job classes because the illegal immigrants take those jobs, but most of those are jobs Americans WON'T do. I'm in AZ and see it first hand. In Mexico, for example, you want to eat?... get a job. Need a place to live?... work for it. In America.... just go to welfare office and you get cash, a place to live, transportation, medical care, education, etc.
I am 60 yo, white, American, and have worked my entire life. Why can't everybody who can just get a job and earn a living? Because the socialists are taking over. It didn't work in the past so why try it again?
Well spoken Rick!
While you have some of the problems about our country correct, you are also entirely ignorant. "There's absolutely nothing positive about America?" Please. You're being dramatic, and it's certainly not becoming. Get over yourself and stop being a crybaby.
Everything Liberals touch goes bad.
There will never be another Liberal President in this land of ours.
THAT is what people in the UK felt like whenthe last government was in ofice.
Government spending citizens money on Programmes which East Germany would have admired.
CCTV on every street in the name of "freedom", ID cards proposed, free speech attacked and reduced.
Socialists were in control!
2010, Socialist kicked out..NO MONEY LEFT &Billions in debt. Sound familiar.
But now people are getting to have more hope. For a new government are cutting programmes and excess govt.
A start.
Before people too had no hope...is that how socialists the world over operate??
Well people can now see a little light at the end of the tunnel, and are getting a little less pessimistic.
Perhaps after Obama and the socilaist Dems have gone, citizens in USA may feel the same.
But all bets are off if the citizensreturn to power those who have failed USA since 2008!
Nearly everything you just said outside of our political BS is either outright false or horribly exaggerated. In all honesty, your whining about people who don't live you do (living to work, working to live) is what's causing the US to stagnate. What the hell does keeping a tidy lawn have to do with ANYTHING, anyways? That foolish sentimentality has no bearing whatsoever.
Besides all that, I think we've been #1 long enough. It's high time that somebody else (perhaps China?) to handle the reins. They can deal with all the crap in the world today, and we can get on with enjoying life (what life SHOULD be about!).
Rick, I almost agree with you, but I disagree with your statement that the country is in decline because of the government. The country is in decline because we have become a weak and greedy people. The U.S. government is the mess it is because we have elected those people, and we have elected them because they have promised us the world. We expect to be given cradle-to-grave health care, without paying for it. We expect infinite extensions of umemployment benefits without paying for them. We expect another government stimulus will make us all wealthy, but none of us want to pay for it.
Yes, our government has failed us - but only because we've told it to.
Decline... is mostly a consequence of the growing ignorance of the american people...toward Economy, World affairs and finally the very basic fundamentals upon which this country was originally created. Americans still believe they live on a magical land of opportunity and they dream the life of their idols and patrons...not realizing that this life they envy... is reached by 1 out of a thousand...and this is only because the other 999 can't live it... Why is it that america has to be synonymus of inequalities...(on education, welfare, chances in life). Why is it that it only comes down to greed and money.... You realize how deep a country can go when you get to analyse who its people select to represent them...Everything in the US is about how you package things instead of what you package in.... it's becoming to the ideology side what was China on the manufacturing side....
911 was so sad... sad because it was mostly paid by innocents... in America and elsewhere.... 911 is a sad event because... it became an opportunity for America to lead as an example...an example finally no one wants to follow. What did all these innocents die for...? Since it's all crumbling down now.
There is nothing good about America? Really? Love it or leave it.
There is actually... a lot of good... and bad.... the best and the worst...and I don't live in it so I do not have to leave it!
...yawnnn.....
Rick – The positive thing is America asks, eventually "How did things get this way, and how can we improve?" as a culture. If you dig just a layer deeper, I think you will find that we did this to ourselves, economically. We have allowed China to blatantly violate WTO rules and essentially steal growth from the USA, we have allowed our Congress to default on obligations to declare war, and our government is coin-operated. That last point is very important, and it is the reason why our government bails out Wall Street, not Main Street. We can fix it. America has done more good for more people than any nation in history. We have much to be proud of, and should be apologizing to no one, least of all the Middle East.
Well thought-out reflections, Fareed. By the way, I noticed one small typo in one of the sentences: "I have often said that they most influential piece of writing of the last decade was a United Nations report". - >"they"
Great article..
Lousy article as usual from zakaria.
Obviously your are a Muslim and hate Zak because he does not toe your line. Get a like stupid Paki !
Zakaria is the worst of the worst.
Best 9/11 joke: shortly after 9/11, a guy from the State Dept gets a visit from the new Saudi Ambassador in Washington. "Ahmed, nice to see you. Are you and the family getting settled in okay?" "Yes, but I have one question." "Sure Ahmed, I'm here to help." "Well, my kids are watching this TV show Star Trek. On the space ship there are many people: Americans, Russians, Africans, Asians and Indians. But why no Arabs on Star Trek?" "Oh Ahmed, that's because Star Trek takes place in the future."
Chris: Dramatic? ignorant? Rick is telling it how it is, it sucks, but it's reality.
I have commented extensively on my former countryman from India Mr. Zakaria’s writings and his ongoing Anti-Western, Anti-Semitic pro-Islamic agenda.
While a lot of Americans have until now had been misled into believing his moderate stance given his penchant for saying certain obvious things (ONLY in an effort to capture gullible minds), while cleverly hiding all the vitriol in sugarcoated language, through this article, Mr. Zakaria himself blows the lid off on his overall thinking & agenda!
Here are some notable comments that I would like readers to focus on to understand Mr. Zakaria’s line of thinking.
(Readers please note: I need to truncate my response as it is being censored!)
Unfortunately it looks like my comments are being censored.
Readers please read the article in his enterity paying close to attention to Mr. Zakaria's initial anger which dissipates into holding America itself responsible for all these terrorist acts.
I read his articles only to see how the other half thinks. And his thinking is quite flawed. I will remember 9/11 until the day I die. I will remember the crying as I drove to work. The fear of leaving my child at school waiting for another attack. The smell of the burning buildings for days on end. The cheers from the Muslim communities of North Jersey as the rescue workers became clean-up workers. The purchases of socks, breathing filters, water to be sent to those workers. The monies raised by our union to help the survivors. The tears. The anguish. The horror. Yes. I will always remember.
OMG! Amit you are an idiot... I read your comments and really wish I rather stab myself in the eye... you are an ignorant fool and I have been noticing that for a couple of months.. No wonder your comments are censored!
Great article, but tons of typos.
My friend, Fareed.
Thanks again for your balanced and measured perspective on the state of the world. I've spent the past eight years deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, executing the military policies of this nation, with mixed results. I don't get to watch GPS too often, but I think you would be well-served to interview some middle-level troops on their experiences in reconstruction, training, and repairing the destruction caused by past despots and the current plague of nihilistic terrorists. Keep up the fire, Fareed.
It was the beginning of opening the lid of the tightly closed Middle East. Americans got sacrificed for liberty to all women, as they always did. Thank-you to USA.
Must be nice to have "contacts at the New York Police Department, the FBI, the CIA". The rest of us are normal people who just had to wait in fear.
Are you suggesting that he should not have used those contacts? If it had been you, would you have not tried to help out a friend in anyway you could?
Liberals: indict the warriors.
Republicans: War
Also, I can't wait for your the slowpitch softballs you are gonna throw at a war criminal.
Nice to Know the Great Lie is still going on and the Average American is taking the bait hook line and sinker. Wake the hell up people and take a look at the facts. Not the facts the main stream media want you to know, Im talking about the evidence that points to a Controlled demolition.
Bush is a war criminal and should be hung for his actions along with all his pals in the CIA CFR NATO and so on.
lol
Stay in school.
Good grief, I thought all you 9/11 conspiracy nuts had finally shutup. You need to Google Popular Mechanics 9/11 and read, learn, forget the fact you hate Bush because you voted for Gore and Kerry and they didn't win. Give it up, yes there was smoke, yes there was fire, but it's because a jumbo jet loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flamible Jet A1 fuel crashed into the buildings at 500 mph destroying the integrity of the structure and the buildings failed and fell on top of everything around it including Building 7 you moronic peter leech.
so u also think that bin laden who had a history of attacking america just admitted to the attack for fun? no he planned the attack and there is plenty of proof, simply look at this, when ever the government plans a complicated plan does it ever work? i bet you also think JKF and the Moon landing were all conspiracy too
Right. Don't you think if Bush was behind it he would have planned things a little better...like not sitting around and reading to kids about goats for 10 minutes while all hell was breaking loose? LOL.
I will remeber it as the day my distain for our own government reached the level it is today. Anyone who thinks our government didn't know something was going to happen has been drinking to much lead contaminated water. they can tell you things about yourself you don't even know. I would not be at all surprised if our own government contributed in some way in the attack. What better way to promote an unjust war for oil. I'm not saying they did, just that I wouldn't be surprised. Bush and Cheney should be shipped off to Germany so they can be tried for the war crimes they commited. At the very least they should be held accountable for destroying the American economy, a treasonist act. All you right wing rebublicans can blame Obama all you want. The majority of Americans know whose to blame for our current state of affairs. I have no political affiliation, I simply call it as I see it. My own parents voted for that moron Bush and I warned them that it was a huge mistake. They have come to realize.....I was right.
Well put SICKOFIT, and quite true. I couldn't have stated it better!
Did you ride the short bus?
Short bus? What are you insinuating? I have a small child that happens to ride the "short bus". I bet you use the word "retard" as well. The words/phrases you chose to use make you look as stupid as some of these posts I'm reading about the real topic. Sheesh...my eight year old "short bus" rider has more class/dignity in his pinky than you do in your entire body.
Well said. It was the darkest period of history in my life at least. And now I just watched the CNN summary of that day and of course no mention of WTC 7 going down. Pathetic. Really. Oh well, thank God we can all watch it on YouTube and come to our own conclusions. It's all coming out slowly and becoming mainstream in conversation at least; I just hope it will hit critical mass within the lifetime of these idiotic perpetrators.
Wow sickofit! Must feel great to be right all the time. Turd...
Hello Everyone,
Just want to share this important piece of information with every one. Islam has clearly stated that no one is permitted to hurt an other inocent person or animal or a bird or a property and that means NONE in any way shape or form.
So any one who is born in a Muslim Country / family or has a Muslim name, decides to go out there and hurt any one or an animal or a bird or a plant or a tree anything that is living or non living, is absolutely NOT a MUSLIM. I am no Scholar but if some how I am given the authority, I will declear every single person (muslim or non muslim) who goes out to hurt other innocent human beings (of any religion) in any way or form, AN ANIMAL with no religion.
This is just my thought.
Thanks and Peace!
"""any one who is born in a Muslim Country / family or has a Muslim name, decides to go out there and hurt any one or an animal or a bird or a plant or a tree anything that is living or non living, is absolutely NOT a MUSLIM."""
I'm sorry, but this is a tired semantic game you play. If someone believes himself to be a Muslim, and then commits a heinous crime motivated by his belief, you can not absolve Islam.
You believe the Qur'an to be the direct word from Allah – no ifs ands or buts. True? Then whose fault is it if his Word is misinterpreted by a mere human?
I say streamline the TSA, dunp the DHS. Let's save our money and return to living our lives as Americans. It might happen again. No one knows. But at least we would live free and proud and not be so obsessed with being safe. That would be a victory against those who delight in seeing us spend our blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Put our energy , labor, intellect and resources into becoming the greatest economic , and then military power the world has ever seen. Our old President had it right, Speak softly and carry a BIG STICK. Don't meddle in other countries. Don't get tangled up in alliances.Don't tolerate international corporations that earn profit in America but but don't contribute to american jobs or taxes. If someone threatens our country, don't be squemish about attacking the enemy , DESTROY THEM, preferably quickly and without mercy. And never , never let people convince you that Americans deserve to be victims of terrorism. At least not so long as people are risking their very lives so they can come here to be Americans.
I really don' see how history is suppose to remember something , when the entire truth has not been divulged .
The entire truth will never be known .
I wondering how history will remember Americans and their brainwashed lives .
Looks like Fareed has me on the no post list. He doesn't like what I say about him.
Wow, you must really think highly of yourself to think he would take the time out of his day to censor you.
I remember how beautiful that day was. The air was crisp and cool. There was no humidty and the sky was a brilliant blue. Then the news came from New York , and then while the news was on we saw the second plane and things have never been the same.
"The day on 9/11, the world was at peace"....I don't think so. More like most Americans turned a blind eye towards any international news back then. Some good points, too sugarcoated and usa-centric in analysis in my opinion (but I do understand that this is partly due to the fact that these are your personal reflections).
While the USA is definitely in economic, political, etc. decline, I think we are very far away from any sort of meltdown or unstoppable decay. While China is the 2nd largest economy right now, their numbers are so distant compared to the USA's. Yes, their growth is exponential but that growth can only sustain itself for so long. Furthermore, China's and the USA's economies mutually and extremely depend on one another. I know this point is a little off topic, but it is an important one nonetheless.
Regarding the "they are taking all of our jobs" issue, the problem is not that there is a "finite" amount of jobs out there, but that our nation is not providing the resources to advance our citizens' job skills. We need to help our unemployed, lower-skilled brothers and sisters evolve to the next step. The job market is changing in this country and well all need to help one another gain the skills to compete. Jobs can/will always grow, the question is if the job-searchers' skills can grow.
Thank you for the article Fareed, because although not everyone may agree with your views, the fact is that people are TALKING about these larger issues- and this is the most important point.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-Confucius
Zakaria is the only smart one !
He has all the contacts. He knows all the solutions to the world's problems.
He advised Obama on healthcare.
He was the teleprompter at the speech last night.
He was the smoke from the towers.
Zakaria for secretary of the taliban.
I second your nomination.
america has free speech but it doesnt mean you have to use it to slander people. what caused this current political stalemate is the fear mongering and chaos of people like you. we can not move forward if we sit here and just complain
Flight 93 made for a good story...too bad it was shot down.......yes shot down by a US Fighter. But the public will never be privy to that infomation as no one can stomach that we had to actually shoot down one of our planes heading (maybe) to the White House. How do I know? I was the duty controller that day.
Actually, it was aliens, but the government doesn't want you to know that. I mean, as long as we're being weird and not paying any attention to the facts, right?
Zakaria is a Council On Foreign Relations member and a willing servant of the International Bankers controlling America.
Why is Pakistan still holding Osama's wives and kids in custody and not repatriating them like they said they would? Are they a threat? Obviously the US didn't think so. Or do they know something the Pakistanis want kept secret?
listen guys you need to look into 911 gov't cover up ..we owe the ones that died that day to investigate more into what really happened on 911 and bring those accountable forward. Don't let the mainstream media brainwash you.
Are you checking all of your closets before bed at night?
Our jobs are going to India. Instead of my grandfather, its some lousy woman in india answering phones ! thats our downfall !!!
It will be remembered much like Pearl Harbor, the USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, the sinking of the Luisitania, the burning of the Reichstag, the killing of Archduke Ferdinand, the US's approval of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, etc. etc. etc.
My 2nd thought after the towers fell; OMG, we have an alcoholic frat boy who bankrupted every business he was charged with as President. Hope he knows what he is doing. Well he didn't, and Al Queda's goal of wrecking our economy was accomplished not by the 9/11 attacks themselves, but by the gross mismanagement of the country and of the war. I mean tax cuts during a time of war, and now the Tea Party want the segment of society who send the most troops in harm's way to continue to shoulder a majority of the burden with their anrachist approach to running the economy? Where was the anger when we had to have military families hold fund raisers to provide our troops with what Rumsfled later acknowledged were basic protections the US military should have provided going in? I will remember all this as the greatest military and economic failure in American history unless the Tea Party and GOP concede that it is time for all of us to pay for this war, not just the middle and lower classes.
History will remember 9/11 as the period when the United States of America became
the biggest cry babies in the world.
History will judge Americans for giving up
freedoms and liberties to the state. History will dictate we deserve neither freedom
nor liberty.
Historians will judge us for what we are. Cowards. Losers. Crybabies.
History will also rename the new tea party for what they are. The KKK.
cry babies? because we remember our pain and try to learn from it? it was a attack that damaged our nation and our image of our country. it would be like Germany forgetting WW2 and the holocaust. at the same time americans are not weak, we just need to remeber who we really area as a nation, and btw try saying that to one of our fighting men and women over seas, you may not agree with what they are fighting for but please respect them for their courage to stand up for what they belive in
This attack,was payback for neverending occupation of us army around the world. The pride of usa is lost...forever
Since you live in Europe, the European country you reside in invites the US Military to run bases within your country, that's one reason why Euro nations can afford to maintain many social services that would go to building domestic military forces to protect the entire Euro Union. The US doesn't have bases in countries that don't invite us, unless we're at war within that countries boarders. Pull your head out of your rear end before you start getting a kick out of it.
Ohh no.. Who is inviting US force.. CIA ?. Preparing battle fields based on hiden forgin policy all over the world to capture the resources and creat virtual colonies..?
Europe lives in fear as the dark races burn their cars nightly and control the streets as the white man pays through the welfare system for those very burnings.
To paraphrase Mr. Zakaria in his 2008 Newsweek article about the end of conservatism: Progressive slogans sound anachronistic in the context of today's problems, like an old black and white TV show from the 1960s.
There was nothing special about that day.
Until 8:46 AM, that is. But if you weren't alive then, you wouldn't know what the experience of fear, sadness and anger was from that day.
That makes you, let's see, less than 10 years old, right?
I agree for the most part, but I wouldn't say 9/11 itself caused the decline of the US. It was the series of events that occurred after 9/11 and our response to it. I am not saying we did the wrong thing because there really was no choice. Most of us Americans were angry and wanted to retaliate. I still feel that way every time I see WTC in smoke.
But the real reason for our decline is the rules of war in todays age. WWII ended with 2 atomic bombs that took out military targets, with civilian casualities as collateral. Today, that would be unacceptable, and instead war is longer, and takes more ground personnel. If instead we dropped a few atomic bombs in afghanistan or iraq and dont care what occurs in those countries postwar, those wars would be over in 1-2 days. I'm pretty sure al queda will stop if we threaten to drop a few more atomic bombs every time they threaten us. I'm not saying thats the right thing, but thats on par with the thinking of past wars, and will assert our dominance in the world.
im really appreciate that in my school, every students wore red,blue and white clothes for the tower. so we hopelly the tower wont get hit from the air plane again. We love you NYC!!!!
Wow i cant believe the tower has fall down and kill 3.000 people. Thank you Goerge Bush for closing the airport stage. I wish the tower will NEVER crash AGAIN! We love you New York !!!! By: Florencia
PLEASE SAVE THE WORRRLLLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what's next by Islamphobes crap? that the Latin American drugs cartels are Muslims? we're indebted forever to Muslim China? Muslims are taking our jobs? 100,000 Muslim victims of Bosnia killed themselves and blamed the Christian Serbs for it? Rwanda Chrsitian masscres were a Muslim conspiracy? Muslims invaded Israeli towns in Poland, Germany and Russia and established an Arabs-only state with colonies that house Arab immigrants from Yemen and Morocco? Muslims forge evidence of WMD's in Christian countries after speaking to their "heavenly father" to justify invading Christian countries in the west "to liberate them" and make millions homeless and dead in the way?
hey don't bring religion into it, you are trying to protect Muslims from people who are blaming their whole religion for extremists in the same way dont blame the whole of Christianity for extremists are their side.
Why doesn't anyone talk about WTC 7 that fell in the afternoon of the same day due to controlled demolition?
..Because that never happened. (shhhhh BIG brother is watching and listening to you)..
How does a steel and glass building just FALL down at freefall speed with only 3 small fires inside? (hint.. military explosives help a bit in that collapse.. ).
Our resident meatheads who only feel powerful when they think they know something special.
Planes damaged all the buildings and some came down.
first of all, mr zakaria, how did bilderberg group feel about 9/11? second, it is beyond obvious that 9/11 was carried out by the american government. for proof, there is no wreckage at shanksville or at the pentagon. the THREE towers fell at free fall speed into their own footprints. at world trade center 7, officers were telling everybody to back up, theyre going to blow up 7. dick cheney also issued a stand down order. none of this is debatable. it all happened. i just wish fareed would tell us what goes on at bilderberg. we know you go there.
9/11 was obviously a horrible historical event. But how will people remember hit, 12/7, 6/6, 8/6, 11/11. Pretty much the same way.
Hey Fareed. Still having those weekly meetings at the White House so you know what propaganda to spew? You are a disgrace and should be deported, if not tried, on grounds of treason (if you're even a legal citezen). Your blathering about how we should change our system of government, how our system is a failure and not as good as other parliamentary systems will end soon enough when you get fired from CNN. You are terrible. I'm disappointed to see CNN employ foreigners that bash the American system all the time. Shame on you guys.
Fareed sleeps with the fish.
Yet another piece of hate propaganda from the Terrorists fav apoligist. You are a disgrace. We don't need to change my friend. As much as you want us to.
If you people dont realise what the jewiish people are behind till now.. forgot the west and there greed for OIL. the jeews blew up the twin towers. not bin laden he would claim anything.. think of the jEWish people who took land from others.
911 was a self inflicted wound by the CIA and Mossad. The official 911 fairytale has more holes in it then swiss cheese, but the idiotic Americans are too busy watching American Idol to see through the garbage the government gives them. What a sad country America has become.
Yep, too bad the American media covers up all the lies of this country. Americans are a bunch of sheep headed off for slaughter.
no one watches american idol anymore.
You are not taking your medication.
911 was allowed to happen to kick off the endless war on terror.
so true a endless war.. so called JIHAAD .. wrong enemy is a religion .. U.S GOOD LUCK
Why are my posts being censored by CNN? You gotta love "FREEDOM OF SPEECH!". Thanks CNN for defending our rights to FREE SPEECH!!! (NOT)
free speech doesnt cover hateful comments
History won't remember 9/11...at all. It is insignificant in the scheme of things.
Fareed Zakaria (the blog writer) was going on a 'month long leave from your job' without your wife and 1yo son?
Then you turned back, found it was way to hard to continue to get to your family (through traffic not rubble) SO then decided to turn away from your family AGAIN, for a month!?
Maybe you should have perished youself back then, at least your family would had a reasonable reason to be alone through this world traumatic time.
I'd rather hear from writers who have more family values, you have nothing to contribute when you show nothing to your own family. Its meant to be in good times and bad, not in selfish and cold.
Rethink your own values, they start at home.
It's ten years now! I can't believe it.
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There is a video in which engineers and architects is saying that this was an implosion
See in; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw&feature=player_embedded
9/11 is comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and therefore was treated as an ACT OF WAR, and was handled the exact way that it should have been. Just because times now are different from the 1940's and we are not fighting a "uniformed army" doesn't mean that they are not an army at all. They are skilled, and battle hardened army, who fought of the Russians at their peak. We will never forget what happened on 9/11 just like the Afghans will never forget when the Americans arrived, and in time, left. We didn't choose this war, but i'll be damned if we don't finish it. I am a former Sgt. in the Marine Corps, and a 3x Iraq War Veteran, I fought, and those that chose not too, well honestly, shame on you. This war could've ended a long time ago, if people would've gotten off of their fat, lazy ass's and stood up for something that is much greater than themselves. People like our military wouldn't have to serve multiple deployments in an enlistment and face bouts of PTSD because of it.
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Most of the world that hasn't already will forget it, because new horrors, created by man or nature, will probably occur, alas. Those directly affected by the event will hurt, probably forever. The rest of us will remember but move on, hopefully having learned that fanaticism of any kind creates havoc. That's life.
The article was mostly true. On the other hand, Fareed Zakaria, partly because he is paid by the US press, is not seeing certain things. First and foremost, he is not noting that several elements are necessary for a revolution, much like any fire. The first, the the item to be burned. People must be angry with the way things are or they simply will not act. Second, there must be heat, the spark that sets the fire to burning. We are told this was an event in Tunisia. I am not sure that is it, but it was either that or something much like it.
There is a third item necessary for any fire and without that item, the fire will die. That item is the catalyst, oxygen. Oxygen is such a dangerous element. It is prone to explosion. With oxygen, Adam Smith's law of unforseen consequences applies.
In the Arab Spring, we very much so the anger of the people and the spark, the man in Tunesia. The spark, in all probability came from the United States and Nato. Now we have the fire. It is not likely that Egypt, Libya, or Syria will end up with democracies. That was never the plan. They will end up with new governments that look very much like the old ones but with very familiar faces. We have unleashed the wildfire and we may well get burned as a result.
One thing that very much interests me about this Arab Spring is the distinctions between them and us, but the similarities. The rich oil barons of the Arab world struggling to protect their monied interests against the masses, most with legitimate concerns for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, health care, and education. On this side of the world is our rich monied interests trying to stuff more money in their pockets at the expense of the poor. These monied interests pushing tax cuts for themselves and reductions in the minimimum wage and regulations that protect workers, all at the expense of the poorest workers.
At the same time of the Arab Spring was the unreported events of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey, along with other places. It is not them versus us, the world versus America. It is simply us. The same events are unfolding on both sides of the Atlantic. How fitting that this article would appear at the same time as the burning of the Israeli Embassy in Egypt. The Israelis are having their own food problems in their country. That is not the issue. The issue now is the out of control fire that may yet devour us all.
I think some people forget how supportive the country was of Bush after 9/11. We needed and leader, and as hard as it is to believe now, he gave us the leadership and comfort we needed as a nation in full on fear. I find it disgusting that people belittle the lives of those lost, and their families still living in grief, with their "conspiracy theories." There were no 'controlled demolitions' and I'm quite confident those who were running in and out of the buildings will attest that no was planting military explosives to bring the towers down. Ridiculous. Get a life and have some respect.
Those innocent people died not just because of a greedy government, but a greedy country-a greedy culture. Why don't we focus on electing people who represent AMERICAN values-not GOP, not dem-to bring our country back to a place of pride. That's the real justice-not just war, not just Al-Qaeda gone-but rebuilding the strength of our country so that we prosper fiscally, politically and socially. Sounds good to me.
Now we have Obama, the worst President in the history of this land.
actually the worst president is Buchanan he let the civil war happen and committed treason soooo please do not blame a president for something unless u really know your facts
Some of these comments by people here are ignorant. The conspiracy theorists are totally wrong and misinformed. The different posts are by same person,but with a different name. whatever and ever makes sense. Some of these people need to get a life and start reading and studying.
but, don't study too much ......... most of the terrorists are highly educated.
Fareed,
...the danger comes not from them but from us.....reminds of Linclon's Lyceum speech Jan 1838...
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
I hope non-historian readers will scan the piece :
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
But as an immigrant, I see no better place to live, no better society to raise our children, do you ?
And so, we'll remember the ending of Gettysberg address :
- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I generally do not like this author's opinions about 50% of the time. But this piece is exceptionally good.
Just like the Reichstag fire before it 911 was an Orchestrated opportunity for a Fascist Police state to creep in under the guises of "Protecting the Fatherland"
The DHS (department of homeland (in)security) has become the US version of the Gestappo.
First it was communists, then jews, then its own citizens became suspect of the Gestappo.
Now history repeats itself once again here in the US political dissenters are lumped in with terrorists. Notice the DHS videos depicting white middle class americans as likely terrorists? They arent and never were concerned with Alqaeda. this is about stifling dissent, destroying America so the worlds richest can prosper gutting this once proud Nation. Notice who benefitted most from this tragedy? Bankers and weapons dealers.
If we do not stand up against this tyranny that has usurped this country 10 years ago, we will be no better off than the Germans who willingly and unwittingly gave themselves to the Third Reich.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Time to move on from hate and wars to building peace – Muslims the world over have nothing to do with such an act of hate and destruction that drove the 9/11 bombers.This attack has been used to falsely accuse our cherished religion of Islam – a religion of humanity. Terrorism is a crime and the perpetrators are not representatives of any faith, colour or race.
i agree that we should not punish muslims for the hate crimes of extremists claiming to be Muslims but i ask that you do not blame christians for the crimes committed in Jesus Christ name
The U.S. would be a safer place if the U.S. would stop the unconditional support of illegal occupation by Israel.
10 years after the fact the only question we should be asking is: Who did 911? How they did it? and Why?
Im sorry for the loss of lives, but those bldgs were UGLY anyways.
Traditional beliefs are gradually being eroded as people come to understand more about the nature and history of the world around them. Islamic fundamentalists experience this as a threat from the West and lash out against it. In America, Christianity is under similar pressure and the more radical elements are lashing back, some by joining the Tea Party. Old time religion will eventually have to change or it will fade away, but people will not easily accept that things they have believed to be absolute truth from early childhood are no more real than fairy tales.
In building a shrine to 911 victims, aren't we also inadvertently building a monument to remember the architect of 911? The sooner America can let go and move forward, the better it will be for all us.
"Are we safer?" is not the question. Safety can be an illusion unless the source of danger is eliminated. I think the real question that remains is "Have we eliminated the source of danger"? I think not.
Consider that every generation and age has its threats to security and safety. In the 30s-40s it was European and Asian Fascism. In the 50s-80s it was Soviet Communism. Today it is Islamic Extremism. In the middle of those struggles, what would have been our answer to the question "Are We Safer?" The answer would have been NO. The struggle is not yet over.
History will remember 9/11 as it has remembered Dec. 7,1941, but I doubt that it will remember it as long as the whole world became part of Dec. 7,1941!!!
El Viejo
I am always amazed at Fareed's perspective. He is a guy that just "gets it".
It TRULY surprises me as to how naïve & gullible we Americans are!
Many people skim through Mr. Zakaria's articles and retire with a good feeling that he is all nice & sweet and a highly patriotic American. His writings are like figuring out a hidden image in a jumble, even though quite frankly it's not that complicated.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the article a little more carefully. After the INITIAL expression of Anger & Horror at the attacks, it's all a SELF-INTROSPECTION (pretending to be an American patriot) on why we brought THIS OPEN OURSELVES! What makes them (Muslims) hate us so much.......then comes his well researched(!) article, or a series of articles "Why they hate us"., Learning to Live with Radical Islam, Why we overreacted to 9/11, etc.etc.
The conclusion is the SAME in all these articles as it's here "It's all about us and NOT them" which is no different from that of the religious zealots in the ravines of Af-Pak fighting real & perceived discrimination by America & the west against Muslims which touches every issue Muslims are even remotely concerned about incl. of course famously "so-called" Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir, support to dictators, plus non-admission of Muslim Turkey into the EU, Burqa ban in France, Minaret ban in Switzerland, Norwegian monster Breivik, opposition to GZ Victory and Murfeesboro Mega mosques, FBI monitoring of Mosques, burning of the Koran by an obscure crazy pastor etc. etc. all the while being DEAFENINGLY SILENT on the hateful teachings in his Muslim religious texts.
With moderates like Zakaria there is just not a chance that this war with Islam ging on for 14 centuries will ever end.
More hypocrisy from this rabidly anti-American globalist shill. Zakaria cheers on the BRIC nations in their defacto war on the USA and expects us to meekly submit out of liberal guilt. Don't let the door hit you in the gaand on the way out, mador chod.
We are definitely not safer, even 10 years after 9/11.
Terrorists learned from decades of fatalities worldwide caused by people becoming trapped in burning buildings, and simply Harnessed that to cause thousands more deaths at the World Trade Center buildings than otherwise possible.
We are still as vulnerable from the Same Method of Attack as that used on us on 9/11.
Good article. I consider the author one of the few who actually research our enemy enough to give coherent answers to our questions about them.
Obama's meddling in the govt.'s of the middle east has caused a much more volatile world – while campaigning he said he would regain respect for the USA – to the contrary this idiot has made us look like idiots and meddlers – we should take care of our own – and let the Muslims take care of their own – mind our own business and we would be safer -
The real problem is Islam. If we drop bombs in the mid east and wipe out all of those people, problem solved. No more of this crap.
We not only lost Twin Towers in 9/11 and 3000+ lifes, we lost 8 years of last ten almost everything til now we sort of realized there is a thing called economy we need to care our own. Terrorists are big winners. We don't dare to count how much we have lost during this global war on terror. Do we dare to ask what America stands today versus ten years ago in its economy in the world? A big loser!
How did the U.S. get to be so hated in some parts of the world? Why should the U.S. have to have a military presence all over the world?
Here's the real challenge... http://www.thirdoptionmen.org/blog/engaging-muslims/
Special thanks to former Navy pilot Austin Boyd for this incredibly relevant article!
In all the discussions and rememberances of the events of 9-11 it is impossible not to recognize the shadow of one man in the background of all this. The man is Al Gore. Al Gore ran a close election with Bush and lost when the supreme court stopped the recounts. That was the point at which the events of 9-11 became a foregone conclusion. The Bush people did not take the dire warnings of the Clinton intelligence community seriously and we dropped our guard. The 9-11 terrorist pilots began their training in Jan of 2001 and their plan started to come together. They did not dare attack us under Clinton and would not have done it under Al Gore. To do so would have meant Bin Ladens own death and the death of Al Qaeda. The predictable Bush response was to botch a war in Afganistan and start and botch a war in Iraq thereby greatly strenthening Al Qaeda. The real sadness of the day is that if the 3000 people killed on 9-11 voted in the same percentage as the rest of the country then 1500 of them stood in the voting booth and voted for their own death. The real and lasting message of 9-11 for America and the world must be – never again. Never again will America elect a president like George Bush. Never again.
Well-said, sir.
I so agree..9/11 was botched intelligence on the U S part....not super intelligence of Bin Laden....
It's no coincidence that since the 9/11 attacks that the US economy has gotten worse. Feelings of loss, lead to real loss in the material world. We have to believe that nothing can ever shake our feeling of empowerment in the world. No one can take anything away from us, ever! Let's stop grieving and get on with rebuilding... just as we've built the memorial to 9/11.... let that be a symbol of our strengh and resolve. (And by the way, we should stop buying any oil from the Saudi and boycott Abu Dai.
What changed since 9/11? Media got richer, Wall Street got greedier, politicians became more selfish, and people got lazier & fatter whining on government to save their butts.
i agree...we as Americans need to stop making excuses..and show everyone what American is really about.
US foreign policy has a history of supporting any dictator or despot as long as they serve it's own self-interest. That was a major cause of 9/11. The other is of course religious extremism. Religion has the potential to bring down society as it has in the past...read history.
The terrorist won and now there are two big holes in the ground that use enough electric to power 500 homes.
What will stop them from hating us? NOTHING. So kill them all.
The 9/11 attacks should never have happened.....George Bush INC. ignored all warnings...the attackers were a 'rag tag' group and pathetic.
Why is this in the World section? Outside the First World, no one even knew that this took place. Obviously, no one in Afghanistan knows why the US Army is there. It's probably the same in Iraq.
The real lesson of 9/11 is that the American people are a few spectacular terrorist attacks away from abandoning their great liberal traditions. The real lesson of 9/11 is that Americans will gladly embrace a Military Dictatorship if they feel threatened.
In 1941, at the height of the Blitz, the British carried on as usual, even though their houses were bombed at night and their Cathedrals were flattened. I thought Americans had such character, they clearly don't.
Today, America can no longer speak with moral authority. It cannot accuse the Nigerian military of indiscriminate massacre in Northern Nigeria when its military did exactly the same thing in Fallujah. It cannot speak with moral authority against torture, because the World now knows that America is extremely comfortable with torture.
America does not have the moral authority to accuse Assad of human rights violations, when Syria was a favourite destination for renditions when the going was good.
The young Arab populations that led the "Arab Spring" can see through your lies, half-truths and double standards and when they finally prevail, mark my words, they'll be hell to pay.
how can you blame entire country of people for the mistakes of their leaders? do you blame all muslims for their extremists? no and you shouldnt, so please do not blame all of America for mistakes that have happened. America can regain its morality of we strive for us and although America has made mistakes just like any other country has we can do good for this world like we have in the past
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq:
We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
60 Minutes (5/12/96)
Americans should know that their governments commits horrible crimes in their name.
Any independent observer will recognize that American violent actions overseas against innocent people come with a price.
History is not going to let this evil that justifies killing so many children with such a determination and impunity go unpunished. This has nothing to do with Islam or Muslims.
Zakaria doesn't want to talk about the big elephant in the room: US actions against non-Americans is what drives these revenge attacks. There are over 160 countries in the world. America is not targeted because it exports burgers and ipods. It is because behind the cool gadgets lies a brutal, ruthless and violent face that acts like they own the lives of every non-America on this planet.
Obama, with the help of flacks and hacks like Zakaria, is doing his Orwellian best to shove 9/11 down the historical memory hole. The most important fact of 9/11 was that this mass murder was perpetrated by religious Moslems in the name of Islam, supported by an ideology based on the Islamic holy texts of the Koran and Muhammad's sayings. This jihadist ideology goes very far beyond al-Qaeda. It is still very much alive, and it still motivates many other religious Moslems to commit mass murder in the name of Islam. We must never forget that.
You need to take responsibility for what your elected officials do outside your country instead of blaming it on other people's faith.
The Middle East is not going to be another of your killing fields like your tyrannical governments did in Vietnam in which 3 million souls were mass-murdered like they are flies.
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq:
We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
–60 Minutes (5/12/96)
What is this 9/11 thing I keep hearing about lately?
We are hoping that China will rise up to the challenge of putting an end to the US hegemony in the Middle East.
China should tell the cowboys that they can drill for oil in their own continent and that there is NO justification WHATSOEVER to have their imperialist troops stationed in the Middle East killing and maiming innocent people and creating all these tensions.
OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
CHINA PLEASE SAVE US FROM THE NAPALM-BOMBERS.
again why do you blame the entire country for the mistakes of our leaders? you say the civilian causality were wrong and you are right they are , but so are terriosts attacks, no one is free of blame. in WW2 millions of civilians died and yet we do not hate Germany, or Russia for that. it was their leaders that committed the crimes so do not blame America for what Bush did
It has been my opinion for years that USA is indeed making the same mistakes Great Britain made a century ago, and France a century before that, and so on, and so forth back through the ages of humanity. None of us are immune to repeating doom, not even when we remember it in all of it's terrible detail.
George W. Bush will always be remembered for his charisma and strong leadership during that horrific period…make no mistake, ‘history’ will judge him kindly…for the great leader he was.
History will remember it as a day when religion (even moderates) can no longer be ignored because believing without evidence provokes people to do anything, even if it clashes with reason.
I suspect history will remember 9/11 as a tragedy and as terribly puffed up by Americans who couldnt' possibly imagine that they would be living like the rest of the world and not as some "chosen people". How many people died from terrorism before 9/11? I'd guess a lot more than 3000 or so.
Zakaria is correct. The greatest threat to all empires comes not from the outside, but from within. Only with internal decay will a global empire be weakened enough to allow it to be superseded, or in some cases, conquered by a rising power. This happened to the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, and is slowly starting to occur in the United States as well. In the case of the United States, there are similarities to both the Roman Empire and the British Empire. Like the Roman Empire, we have an increasingly impotent legislature, and the aristocrats (i.e. CEOs and Interest Groups) are far too cozy with the politicians in charge. Like the British Empire, we have established a vast global empire, not of colonies, but of allies. However, just as the British were forced to stretch their military resources to the limit to keep peace in its colonies, so are we forced to stretch our militaries to the limit to protect our allies from their enemies, and in some cases, even themselves. This combination of vast internal corruption, combined with highly expensive military campaigns, have substantially decreased the economic power of the United States, which had always been our greatest strength. The time to change is now. We must stop wasting billions of dollars fighting other people's wars, focus on building America here at home, and thoroughly reform the campaign contribution system to prevent influential individuals from "buying" politicians for their own gain, at the expense of our national security.
Here is what happened 10 years ago this day: A bunch of arabs attacked US on its own soil, just the way the US has been attacking others on their own lands for centuries. US lost about 3000 people, Other nations have been losing hundreds of thousands of people... We keep bragging, they never say anything.
america made mistakes in Vietnam and Iraq but you can not say the country has always been evil, every country makes mistakes i will make a bet with you that not one country has not invaded another and killed innocents
Ten years ago at this time I was about to get off my shift at King Fahad hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I turned on CNN has I normally did and drifted off to sleep only to awaken a short time later by the increase in volume by the TV. I thought it was a dream, I was just in time to see the 2nd plane crash into the Tower, Barely able to talk I called my friend who was on the dayshift(he was from NY) to alert him what had happened so he could call home. The actual only highpoint was when the news came about Flt # 93 brought down by the people aboard to save lives on the ground. The only thing I could feel was wonderment at how the other flts. had allowed themselves to be brought down by hijackers with box cutters! We heard the Saudi's behind closed and sometimes partially open doors LAUGHING! Most of the other Americans left shortly thereafter only 4 of us refused to be run out of the country, we stayed long enough to hear their laughter turn to angers has the retaliation by the US started! To this day I will always feel a special connection to those true Americans on Flt 93 who refused to be brought down on someone else's terms, because in their shoes I couldn't have thought of any better way to go!!!
I don't agree with Al Qaeda way to terror US, but why america have to be another terrorist with its invasion to other country just for oil? its a shame that powerfull country like America have to be the puppet of Israel.
You are right America is a puppet of Israel, but you can't reason with religious people they are all idiots who believe in fairy tales. The American Fundamentalist Christians are every bit as stupid as the Muslims we are fighting.
The sad thing about us attacking Libya for their oil we won't even get the oil or the profits. We are fighting a war for campaign contributions. Isn't that stupid?
America listens to Israel because there are 10 million Jewish voters in the US, and most of them are pretty wealthy, so they contribute millions of dollars to political campaigns. Now if the Arabs want the United States to stop coddling Israel, maybe they can start selling their oil to America at a cheaper price, say 1/2 the market rate? I'm sure an offer like that would be sufficient to shift America's allegiance in the Middle East
There are only 6 million people of Jewish descent in the US – not all of them are of voting age or rich.
On the surface, we have a huge kickback scheme. Congress gives Israel $3,000,000,000 per year and, in return, AIPAC helps corrupt congress people to get elected.
We are also dependent on the central bankers, Goldman Sachs, and the Rothschilds. Now that our economy is collapsing, we Americans are beginning to question our subservience to this financial empire.
It will be recorded in History books how America over reacted to the attacks of 9/11 and sent 6000 of their young men and women to die on the altar of the Military Industrial Complex. It will record how an ego manic President attacked another nation and imperiled more men and women for the enrichment of the Military Industrial Complex. History will record how Americans of all different beliefs voted for a black man, a Democrat, in hopes he would stop the senseless destruction and wars over seas. It will record how disappointed we were when the new President continued the policies of the Republican administration and didn't stop the wars or do anything else he promised to do. It will record that the Democrat president was a Corporate Slave just like all the other politicians in Washington
History will show how the autocrats in Washington and the new secrecy and intelligence agencies, started as a result of 9/11, eventually stole all our rights and privileges as citizens of America, History will show how the Congressmen and Senators finally gave what was left of the middle class to the Corporate Oligarchs and America finally collapsed.
If there is anything I can do about it History will show how some of us were willing to die for the real America and fight for what was right.
.it is clear that islam condems and does nt surport the killin of innocent life,so lets stop accusing islam,but the bad religion leaders who miss quotes the qu'ran.it is clear dat we condemm reed 4his article,but not takin not dat its our government dat is responsible 4d decline of our economy and the killing of 3000 innocent lifes.its just bad dat we fail to open our eyes in time and see dat the number 9/11 has already been in existances and has been a worning sign given to us by our own Hollywood movies industry ever be4 the horrible event had happen,or do we think its a coo-inccident?its just too bad dat we dnt realise dat our own government is capable of such a thing,also wasting our resources,then divertin our total attention to arab world,so dat we will nt notice wat they are planning undrground and just pretendin to be fighting, but wasting our money.itp just to bad for us,but we need to open our eyes wide and see things so dat we can change them now or never.plz wake up.
its unfortumate for us.we will still witness more attack because we are nt concious of the people dat are attackin us .its our government not talibans whom we think are behind our miss fortune.people open your eyes and see now b4 you'll see no more when you fall a victim of dis wicked conspiracy goin on wit our world leader.A word is enough for the wise.
to those who are against religion. thoes killed in the attackes are now turned into pieces of material and dust and atoms and there is nothing left to be apprecated or honored.
And what about the loved ones killed on Iran Air Flight 655 shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children. This was during the Iran iraq war when we were selling arms to Saddam's Iraq. Accident?
I could give a rats @ss about the muslims or the jews. What I don't understand is why are we getting in the middle of their conflict? Why are we wasting young lives, trillions of dollars, and making enemies abroad? It's not our fight, it's not worth our lives. Let the Jews and Muslims fight it out.
History will remember 9/11 as he day America lost its mind. The country lost 3,000 that day in in response, not only have we lost an additional 5,000, but killed possibly a hundred thousand civilians. It makes you wonder about the nature of terrorism.
Too many anti Muslim and anti Jewish statements. How is this a religious war? Are we doing the Crusades over again?
Religion is being used to con gullible Americans into supporting the NWO and the secular Israeli regime.
The alleged 9/11 hijackers spent the previous night in strip joints. One group left a Koran on a bar-stool. Boozing it up and desecrating scripture on the night before one is to die: Is this the behavior of a "Radical Muslim"? Is this the behavior of a religious person?
Yet those who push the Fear drug and the Hate drug have used 9/11 to hook us on Fear of religion.
How hilariously ironic: Just two decades ago, we were all hooked on Fear of Godless Communists: We feared the LACK of religion, and we were ready to blow up the world to stop the spread of Atheism!
/ / / When are we going to get around to INVESTIGATING 9/11?
/ / / If someone steals $100 from a convenience store, we have an investigation, we preserve the crime scene, we collect evidence, we ask about motive, we look for accomplices. But when 3,000 Americans are murdered, the parties with the most to gain simply TELL us what we are supposed to think, while they dismantle the crime scene, dispose of the evidence, block the investigation, and stall even the underfunded congressional whitewash. The victims of 9/11 deserve better.
/ / / 4,200 Americans and over a million Iraqis have died, because we Americans allowed the neo-cons to USE the 9/11 victims as a pretext for military aggression. ....
/ / / Yet NO ONE has been held accountable. Just as NO ONE has been held accountable for stealing a trillion from our IRAs in 2008, and NO ONE is being held accountable for wrecking our economy. When accountability breaks down to such an extent, we have a PROBLEM that cannot be made to go away by shooting a feeble old man in Pakistan.
/ / / When planes are hijacked or go astray, the U.S. immediately sends up fighters to escort the planes. But on 9/11, hijacked flight 77 was allowed to fly all the way from Ohio, unescorted - a 300-mile 45-minute trip - while at Andrews AFB, 10 miles from the Pentagon, two squadrons charged with protecting the capital sat on the ground.
/ / / How did Osama do it? How DID he get the U.S. Air Force to stand down on that one particular morning? Now we will never know. And the incredible thing is that most Americans do not even WANT to know. For many of us, asking questions is seen as "Unpatriotic" and Ignorance is deemed "Strength".
/ / / I simply ask that crimes be INVESTIGATED, so that the guilty parties can be held accountable. Our failure to properly investigate 9/11 has allowed the neo-cons to level a country of 24 million people.
/ / / The longer the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory stands, the more our own country will suffer - for the same reason that a community suffers when criminals go free while innocent people are locked up. The absence of accountability means that there is no deterrence to crime and incompetence.
/ / / When we ask for an investigation, the Zionists ridicule us and try to silence us. If they had nothing to hide, wouldn't they WANT an investigation? Wouldn't they WELCOME an opportunity to prove their innocence?
Our Condolences for all those 2,900+ innocent souls who died on September 11, 2001 brutal attack. Our Condolences also for all those innocents who died in retaliation to that attack – in a post 9-11 madness – over 1 million in Iraq, 300,000 in Afghanistan, 34,000 in Pakistan and thousands in other countries. Let's not spend precious money on war and creating hate rather for peace which would be much cheaper and full of love and kindness much needed at this point in time globally !!
muslims are laughing at us now. mocking us. look at the americans mourn 9/11. hahahahahaha
We act like sheep. We believe whatever we're told, no questions asked, however absurd - and what could be more absurd than the tale that 19 morons defeated the biggest military empire in history? We shoot first and ask questions never. We beat our chest with bravado, while cowering before the Israeli lobby. We claim to love freedom, while we subsidize a regime that keeps millions under perpetual occupation and bombardment.
Who WOULDN'T mock THAT?
No crusades will happen if christiant and moslem back to their roots of religion. All good religion are supporting peace, i studying christiant, jewish, and islam. If u have question about a verse in bible u can look for the answer in quran, if the questioned verse in quran u can look for the answer in bible, they are all connected. So it is not the matter jewish or islam, its a matter of israel do since the begining to other country.
If u want to know about the truth just look and study the history, both largest religion are having the same vision. I'm not anti jewish also since moses are a prophet of God. What i dont understand and dissagree is what israel do to other country or i must say tribe, for supporting their black campaign, israel print their own version of quran (the islam holly book) and spread it all over America to create propaganda about islam. Fortunately more people curious about islam and when they found they have been missguided by israel propaganda they are changing their religion to islam and even the family of 9/11 victim do that, thats proof that islam and christiant are non violence religion. Western mass media making all the black propaganda smoothers fo israel. People in europe must realize after Israel taking down Islam they will headed for Christiant, it happen once in the past in Jesus time and when they force to leave europe and it will be happen again.
9/11 is a crime but it doesnt mean u have the right to invading the whole country and killing hundred thousand to get a revenge, Invasion to other country also a crime, what israel do to palestinian is a crime, wipe an israel from map is a crime, all are a crime against humanity. This war is not about a religion, its about power and oil. the fact is Israel using Americans resource for their goal.
27 “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. 31 “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. 32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. 36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. 37 Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.(Luke 6:27-37)
"Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden (paradise) whose width is that of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous – Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity or in adversity, who restrain (their) anger and pardon (all) men – for God loves those who do good." (Quran, 3:133-134) "O mankind! We created you from a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know and honor each other (not that you should despise one another). Indeed the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most righteous." (Quran, 49:13)
I have some very unusual reflections on 9/11 and what we really lost as Americans that day...http://12amusings.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/end-of-the-innocence/
From my brother, Rich, stationed in the Middle East: "Support Your War Effort Regardless if it spreading Democracy, or Hunting Terrorist.. We have been in the middle east for 10 years, right or wrong. The majority of the middle east are having an awaking and ready to start dying for their freedom.. It's contagious and we need to keep pushing out here... That the only way we are going to change the dynamics of radical oppressive terrorist in the middle east? Ask me, it is working..."
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=2034919788369&set=a.1308809796073.2040746.1105426864&type=1&theater
History will remember 9/11 as the main reason why religion need to be ban, why islam need to be competly destroyed and why it should bea crime to be a muslim.
History repeats: Germans thought that the Reichstag Fire ( 23 Feb 1933) was the main reason why Judaism needed to be completely destroyed.
Many historians now believe that the fire was set by the Nazis themselves, to give themselves a pretext for enacting the German version of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Acts.
Your id is certainly apt!
I will remember 9/11 as a day of significant loss for America – so much more than 3000 lives obliterated. http://12amusings.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/end-of-the-innocence/
It is not enough to mourn the murdered and sympathize with their loved ones. Despite all the hack politically correct journalists like Zakaria and Obama's Orwellian attempt to shove 9/11 down the historical memory hole, we must never forget that this massacre was perpetrated by religious Moslems in the name of Islam, motivated by their jihadist Islamic ideology which is based in the Koran and the sayings of their prophet Muhammad. The murderers of 9/11 are dead, but that Islamic ideology is still very much alive and motivates more religious Moslems to commit more murders in the name of Islam. The fact that America has to spend untold billions of dollars to protect ourselves from Moslem terrorists proves the point.
According to the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory, all of the defenses of the biggest military empire in history were magically defeated by a conspiracy of Muslim flight-school drop-outs.
What did these alleged hijackers do on the night before they were to die? They boozed it up in strip bars. One group left a Koran on a bar-stool. Desecrating scripture and wallowing in hedonism: This is what "religious Muslims" do on the night before they are to die?
The alleged hijackers seem more like "Radical Hedonists" than Muslims. So maybe we need to make war on hedonists.
"The main story will be about a rapidly changing world and perhaps about the fate of the world’s sole superpower – the United States of America. History might well record 9/11 as the beginning of the decline of America as planet’s unrivaled hegemon."......IN YOUR DREAMS FAREED. You are so incredibly manipulative a phony, it makes me sick. i ca't stand to hear you use the word "WE" when referring to America.
Such a cunning little dweeb that Fareed.
It was a shame that the Bush admin couldn't protect us that day 10 years ago. The Bush admin failed, George W.Bush failed as a president. Thank God for President Obama. He killed Bin Laden. Something the Bush Admin couldn't accomplish. It is very sad to be a Republican. They are very weak and pathetic... So sad......
Why must we dwell on it you ask? Why must never forget? Becuase OUR country was ATTACKED by Terrorists! This was not another "car accident" or an arguement between parties on healthcare. Our country was attacked and that must NEVER be forgotten! So get over your self and if you don't want to "dwell" on 9/11 once a year then I suggest you stay off sites like "CNN" and any other new channel on this day. Let America refelect on the tragic events of 9/11 and take time out to remember those lost.
Sad but true.
Fareed is wrong his ananlysis on Sept 11 attacks. The bottomline is that no matter which part of the world Muslims live they create trouble for others. Just look at Israel, India and other non muslim countries.
Just like the US bombed Hiroshima after the Pearl Harbour attacks if we had Bombed Afganistan with a Nuclear Bomb after 9/11 we would have eliminated Al Qaeda forever with much less cost to the US economy
Like always,you always separate the people ,all around the world with their bloody Governments,today one more time you reminded us the Iranians were the only who mourned the day ofter 9/11although the Iranian regime is the worst terrorist Government,the most hated and barbaric regime in the world . Kudos to you Sir,indeed what a noble man you are,telling the truth makes the people special and admirable,thanks one more time
Why is there no mention of the CIA toppling the Chilean democratically elected socialist government and replaced it with the dictator Agusto Pinochet. That also occur on 9/11.. 1973. Reflect on that!
http://one-heaven.org/covenant/heaven_0001.htm
II just commented on that. 60,000 died as a result, in part, of the US action in Chile.
Look at this mess, Fareed. What an agglomeration of misinformed fools. If these are the people
who follow your writings its time to shut this forum down...No useful purpose is being served here.
9/11 to me is the day the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Chile that posed a risk to American businesses. Our own 9/11 is simply karmic payback.
Terrorists kill not to negotiate, but to kill, you senseless vermin. The only karma is that the koran to be used for lining litter boxes and in lieu of toilet paper.
When is the SEQUEL coming?
They bombed the Twin Towers because americans had invaded their muslims countries.
It is called Karma.
No, you pig. They attacked the USA because they are bloodthirsty muslims. allah is a pedophillic dog followed by unrepentant idiots who kill for sport and to divert attention from their own, self-inflicted misery.
The "War On Terror" is a big mistake instead focus on Universal Education in Spirituality.
WE NEED TO PROMOTE THE BEAUTY OF ALL RELIGIONS IN THE MAIN STREAM EDUCATION.
Racism on the rise in Europe
In Norway, England, the Netherlands, Russia, and especially Austria, racist and Islamophobic movements are on the rise.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192182426183450.html?utm_source=Al+Jazeera+En glish+List&utm_campaign=828a7dad99-Newsletter&utm_medium=email#disqus_thread
http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/religious-study-in-main-stream-education/
http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/where-are-the-renaissances-of-our-time-2/
http://dearmmlee.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/where-are-the-renaissances-of-our-time/
Ahhh 9/11...we all suffered..and we still do even 10 years later...this horrendous attack changed America today..we are still in trillions in debt because of it...and China is rising to the top...I really do not want to be saluting to the Chinese flag....we as Americans need to stick together and take care of this country...We need to rebuild this country as it was before....it is becoming a laughing stock..and I despise people who say we are spoiled and do not know anything...We are the most hardworking people I feel and we need to keep on doing that and keeping America's reputation alive...Starting with educating the American people and preventative care...
I wish people can see the real America...not some stupid media that puts out the bad things about America...II hate when I go abroad and people have this notion about us Americans and it is all BS. I truly love this country and seriously you only realize how much freedom we have here...when we leave and visit other places.
And everyone on here who is fighting about whose God is greater...who is right or wrong...if the 9/11 is a hoax?....it does not matter.
The FACT is 9/11 happened...people died...we need to think about the future and of our children...
Medical coverage is getting expensive....Oil is increasing by the barrel...and what is the point of complaining and acting immature...really...grow up.
God Bless America- The LAND OF THE FREE!
hISTORY WILL REMEMBER 9/11 LIKE IT REMEMBERS DEC.7,1941,LIKE IT REMEMBERS KOREA!!!!
ELVIEJO
History will remember 911 as the day Bush froze!
Seriously people, you can't stop being hateful and ugly for just one day out of respect for the people who died because of hatred. You all make me sick.
9/11 will also mark the date the United States began its transition to a full-fledged, technology-driven national security state, not too different in the treatment of its citizens than that of the adversaries it fears. For many years, of course, America will still proclaim itself the "land of the free", but that will become even more of a hollow slogan than it is today. Whenever individual rights and privacy rights clash with national security interests, the security interests of the state will usually prevail. The apparatchiks never have enough security.
If you doubt the path the country is on, simply think back to the way Americans lived one hundred years ago and note the minimal governmental interference with citizens' lives back then.
I'm sorry, this is just stupid. A hundred years ago there were no phones, no planes, just paper, trains and USPS along with the telegraph.
I completely agree that our focus needs to be on us and our relationship with the world going forward. I would argue that it wasn't the past ten years, and that was to our detriment. It's why I am working on a campaign that focuses on making the next decade better than the last. The campaign is called Be2021 (www.be2021.org) and its goal is to empower young people across the country to build a movement to envision and create a better world by the 20th anniversary in 2021. We feel that young people are the ones who have the right and the responsibility to create that world. If you agree, then join us at our website (www.be2021.org) and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/be2021)
Let us clearly identify the enemy as Islamic Jihad. Let us not turn a blind eye on those who aid and abet that enemy, at home or abroad. The next time we attack, let's declare war and cut the cost by not rebuilding.
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