zombie84 said:

Warbler, I said 9/11 was isolated when it came to American soil. It is. Even though foreign embassies have had attacks committed against them, as far as United States citizens living in the borders of the United States, 9/11 was a one-time deal. That's a fact.

That's not a fact. Not too many years before 9/11 there was a botched attempt at bombing the World Trade Center via a truck loaded with explosives in the parking garage. Only a small handful of people were killed, but over a thousand were injured. Not isolated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Hanafi_Siege

There are over 70,000 people killed in a mild genocide in Syria over the past year and a half that is the worst tragedy since Rwanda that requires your more immediate outrage and attention. If 9/11 fills you with rage, Boston makes you upset, then Syria should give you a full blown stroke. Unless you feel "they don't count" then all of this needs to be put into perspective. In the list of world tragedy's, 9/11 is a fart.

I very much agree with this.

I didn't live in America at the time of 9/11, or the few years preceding and following it, and I've always had a really hard time relating to Americans on it. I remember the event even put an end to my email correspondences with my friends in the US (all of which I've never reconnected with), right after this happened every email I got was so filled with hatred and rage, I just stopped emailing them back. It was this ignorant disdain for all things non-American, especially eastern, and it was really dumb sounding and annoying. Lots of ragging on the French too.

Perhaps you had to have been there. I don't think I'll ever be able to understand the rage Americans have when they speak about 9/11. It was horrific, but so few people died, so many violent acts have happened before and since that have claimed so many more innocent lives (including our stupid wars) and we forget about them moments after hearing about them.