Last Sunday, most of the Western world commemorated the September 11 attacks on the United States. It’s been ten years already, and the tragic event remains engraved in everyone’s memory—we still all remember where we were when we learned about the attacks, how we reacted as the footage of the planes hitting the towers was replayed over and over again.
These three numbers, 9/11, symbolize the end of an era and triggered a multitude of events around the world. Ten years later, where are we? Have we learned anything?
No matter how tragic and how wrong the attacks were, I can’t help thinking nothing was solved and that the so-called “war on terror” only made matters worse. The last decade was one of destruction and confusion. Maybe it’s time to rebuild on a better footing.
I think it’s also time to move on to other things …
i’d like to think this decade to be a decade of hope and peace. we shall never let any terrors bring us down. 🙂
Hope so. I hate the way Western governments dealt with terrorist threats (i.e the Patriot Act).
We have learned nothing. It’s an eye-for-an-eye world. By the time anyone learns anything it will be too late.
I’m afraid so 🙁