9/11

On the tenth anniversary, my strongest feeling about 9/11 is that it was a moment of lost opportunity. I can't remember a time when we had more of the world's sympathy and good will. It could have been a time to win hearts and minds. Unfortunately we had a cowboy in the White House, who squandered the good will on a revengeful wrong-minded war against the wrong enemy, lying to the American public (unless he himself was lied to), beginning a spiral into fear and paranoia from which we haven't recovered. 9/11 marked defeat by our own hands.