Bingowings said:

The whole response to this terrible crime stinks as much as the crime itself.

I agree wholeheartedly. The victory of that day is still something that can be legitimately basked in by those who committed the crime. It achieved its goal of terrorizing people, and now, nearly ten years later we are still living in terror.

Warb, the way I feel about the towers not having been rebuilt, and I think the way Ferris and Bingowings seem to feel about it as well, is that it is kind of an admission of defeat. Oh, okay, you knocked down our towers...

Rebuilding them ASAP would have been a really impressive stand. As if to say, You can blow up our buildings, you can kill our people, but you can't defeat us. You can spill the innocent blood of countless civilians, but you can't break our spirits. You knocked down our towers, but they didn't stay down. You, with your archaic low down ways failed... and against us, you will NEVER succeed.

Rebuilding them would have been a fantastic declaration of defiance... but unfortunately, nothing I said in the above sentence is true. They may not have defeated us, but we haven't defeated them either, they still remain plenty strong. They did break our spirits, the towers did stay down, and their archaic ways succeeded in ways I would have never imagined possible at the time. They are the clear victors in all of this, and we have done just slightly more than nothing to rain on their parade.