Comment by pcurve
3 days ago
"Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction.
During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders"
That is unusually high number of death during construction.
After 25 years, I still get emotional looking at these imageries. The emotion is raw. I'm still mad that this happened.
I'm still mad, and I'm not even American. Even over here in Germany, it was a massive shock wave that went through society and I still remember the day it happened vividly. The effects in society are felt to this day.
One could argue that Osama bin Laden did succeed in destroying the US if not the entire Western order.
The US did exactly what he wanted them to.
He wanted to radicalize Muslims worldwide against the West and drain American resources through prolonged wars.
It's also interesting how infrequently Americans know OBL's motivations for the 9/11 attacks. A big part of it was the American support of Israel, and OBL's belief that this would lead to further oppression of Muslim people in Palestine.
He did terrible things but was pretty accurate in his predictions.
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as an American I very much want to live in the reality where Gore won and 9/11 didn't happen.
If Gore had won, maybe McCain could have been President after him, and the Republican party could've gone in a very different direction too.
If you enjoy these kinds of hypotheticals, check out the series For All Mankind on apple tv.
Are you implying Gore winning would've meant 9/11 wouldn't have happened?
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Are you asserting that Al Qaeda liked Gore enough to suspend their vendetta?
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