Are you all daft? Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, which is the United States. In terms of loss of life and sheer audacity they are pretty similar, but 9/11 is different in that it was such a huge attack on civilians. RIP to my neighbor, who was on flight 77 when it hit the pentagon, and all the others who perished that day. We carry on the fight in your memory.
The alternative was of course the worst attack on our soil followed by the worst depression on our soil (which would have undoubtedly happened if 300 mln americans were mourning and not shopping). Obviously the "shopping" idea was not the solution and was not to be taken literally, the point was to continue living normal lives, spending money and the stimulating collapsing economy. PS I am not a Bush fan by any stretch of imagination.
I agree with you....President Bush probably did not tell us to go shopping literally, but there are enough assclowns (aka Mercor) that would take that literally and go on a shopping spree like a whore that just found a sugar daddy and a dead baby. I never liked Bush before but after 911 things were different. He was our president, I adored him, I supported my president and so did the rest of the country. Bush's approval rating was 90+%. Once we decided to go to Iraq my support was gone. It's NOT that I liked Saddam Hussein but I felt that our priorities were not straight. I wanted to see Saddam, Ahmadjinad, Chavez and Kim Jong Il gone but only after we get Bin Laden. If I had to trade the 4 cocksmokers for Bin Laden, I'd gladly have done that. It's probably the first time in history that the US military has been unable to win a war. Our military is fine and dedicated, I believe it was because of our incompetent commander-in-chief.
Thank God that Obama declared today "National Service Day"! It's so appropriate. Please bring your aluminum cans in for money.
USA....USA....USA... O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave