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Originally Posted by ah123
I think this action hit home, North America had never been touched by anything like this (unlike say Europe which had the IRA and some extreme leftwing organizations in the not so distant past) - we considered ourselves safe and we were shocked into realizing that we were no longer safe...
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And in the same vein how much does Europe still talk about 9/11? I can't imagine it gets even close to the same amount of press that gets here in Canada and the US. The US media always says things like "when the world went still" and other things sound bites that will make people watch, well maybe for a bit, but most the world got back into the swing of things pretty quick. I have trouble believing the rest of the world views 9/11 the same way as North America does (impact not tragedy). If my country got hit by a tsunami, earth quake, other terrorist attack, 9/11 would be pretty low on my list of things of impact. Even worse if I lived in a country where people were dying from common diseases and starvation, 9/11 wouldn't even be on the radar. Anyways that was kind of an aside. It irrigates me how self centred America, and perhaps Canada, can be at times.