It’s been very interesting reading people’s reactions to the terrorist attacks, including some of the undiluted rage and anger. That’s a pretty natural reaction, though I hope cooler heads prevail and we don’t get engaged in some sort of war with Afghanistan.
After repeated watchings of the horrific video of these planes smashing into the World Trade Center, however, there is one form of revenge I’d like to see — whatever else the United States does, we need to rebuild the World Trade Center Towers.
Sure we can drop cruise missiles over Afghanistan, we could carpet bomb the hell out of that country, given the right intelligence we could probably even seize Osama Bin Laden and bring him back to this country for trial.
But longer term, if we really want to make a powerful statement that we will not live in fear of these sorts of cowardly acts, rebuild the towers and let them stand as a symbol of our national resolve.