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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
Are you suggesting that 9/11 is the only event in recent memory feeding this cesspool of hatred? I think more recent and current events might be contributing to this as well and 9/11 isn't the only thing the resentful need to hold onto. A "just let it go" or "get over it" might be a reasonable suggestion for a one and done type event, but the problem of terrorism, with roots in the Middle East, is more relevant now than ever. The players have changed and the solution will always be up for update, but America "never forgetting" keeps funding, resources, and minds focused on the problem of international terrorism, hopefully preventing it from occurring on such a scale again.
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Not at all. 9/11 is a blip on their radar. They've been going at each other for longer than anyone can remember. This is a blood feud that puts the Hatfields and McCoys to shame. But should we strive to be like them, and harbor a hatred for something the vast majority of those people found appalling? Are we going to end up like the Hatfields, where a couple generations from now we are still hating the McCoys, but really don't understand why except for the anniversary of a date? If we are supposedly he more advanced people, and are supposedly the ones who hold the moral high ground, shouldn't we be the ones to move on and put the past behind us? After all that has happened since that terrible day, all the loss for all peoples, can't we just acknowledge that the event happened and move on? I mean, there is a 9/11 memorial on Mars. How obsessed is that?