It seems so simple, if one only looks at why 911 happened. Not WHAT happened. The depth of vision that most people on this planet have seems to be quite shallow. I have a deep sense of personal responsibility for what happened. All Americans do, whether they know it or not. Killing Bin Laden, or even forgiving him, would not change why we were attacked. If I were to post about what transpired in my family when the towers came down, it would probably be an unmatched fight on this forum. We immediately called for forgiveness. We also realized that it was very likely a choreographed act that went well beyond the one man, if you catch my meaning. What needs to happen is personal reflection by each American. As long as we have to subsidize the goods we consume, with war, there will be Osamas in one form or another. The enemy is us. No amount of celebration will change that.

And then there is the subject of celebration. There is room for it, within a context. The end of a specific era. The end of one man. But I find that part rather trivial in comparison.


I might add that to counter anyone who believes that forgiveness is crazy, just think about what we accomplished by doing it the way we did. Trillions of dollars gone. Trillions! Thousands of young men and women gone. A million Iraqis alone, gone. Forgiveness may have not given people a sense of strength or revenge, or whatever, but it would have saved a huge surplus for our future, a million people's lives, and lastly but not least, one hell of carbon footprint. And that is not insignificant. And we wouldn't have incurred yet more wrath from the terrorists in the Middle East.