Comments about ‘Remember Sept. 10, not just Sept. 11’

When I think back to that September 10th I reflect on how much has changed since then. How many border scanners and drones and wars and airport delays and wiretaps and so on. All of this was effected by about a dozen guys with utility knives. However most of it, I think, we did to ourselves. There hasn't been an attack on the nation since then, we say, but I think we attacked ourselves.

This was an excellent opinion piece, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has always been so interesting to me how history repeats itself, and how quickly we, as a society, lose our focus.

Good article! People get too caught up in the trivial and forget to focus on the most important issues in life until a crisis hits. And after the crisis everyone tends to overreact. We have way too much government intrusion into our lives because of 9/11 - all in the name of keeping us safe.

Excellent article. It is time for this nation to grow up and realize we are part of a global village. What happens on the other side of the world is going to affect us whether we like it or not. What is considered "news" in this day and age is inane activities of celebrities who have an inflated opinion of themselves. I have never cared to read about who is sleeping with whom or what dress some actress wore to a benefit. It's hard to find the real news anymore. (like the Afghanastan story being on A4 in the DN). Not the newspapers fault, they print what people want to sell papers and most people are not interested in what is going on in the world.

Too say that no one saw 9/11 coming is absurd. There were hundreds, if not more political scientists and social commentators who saw a major catastrophe coming, predicted and published it. It was the media and society that chose to ignore their warnings. I am not fully criticizing Jay's commentary, but he alludes that we were completely blindsided by the attack. We weren't, many people knew something was wrong.

It is the same today. The same people or type of people are warning of a collapse, a catastrophe, a disaster. This time it will be even more worse. It will be worse as we continue to use resources that are destroying the world--both internally and externally--as we are basing our society off an ancient, degrading form of economics and forcing it on other societies whose only way of response is to attack. Then we will seek them out and punish them for attacking our evil way of life. Yes, two wrongs don't make a right, but we need to remember that while the second offender often gets punished, it is the first offender who commits the greatest misdeed. America--first and greatest offender, terrorists--second offender.

Excellent!

A wonderful article with great perspective. I remember September 10 as my birthday. (and it still is...every year!) I lived in NYC during the time of the attacks on 9/11, so for me, September 10 was about celebrating my birthday and looking forward to a new year of life. My girlfriends and I enjoyed a birthday dinner on a dark and very stormy night in NYC on 9/10. We were laughing and smiling, and I was worried that the rain had messed up my hair for the group photo. Little did we know of the horror awaiting us not 12 hours later -- ironically on a gorgeous, crisp and clear September morning -- that would literally change the world and life as we knew it. I look back on that night of celebration as America's last night of innocence. It haunts me to this day.

Good article. And I completely forgot about Condit and the sharks. That was big news back then.

And I would add that we should also remember September 12, 2001.