Eight years ago America’s enemies perpetrated a horrendous crime, taking the lives of thousands of innocent people and destroying a magnificent New York landmark, the World Trade Center. Lost lives are tragically irreplaceable, but no one at the time doubted that, whether it should take two or three or even as long as five years, our lost landmark was eventually to be gloriously rebuilt in the shortest possible time to an even greater splendor than before, defying our enemies and reaffirming the triumphant American spirit.
Eight long years and billions of dollars in patriotic public donations later, to the glee of our enemies, there is still a gaping hole in the ground, and nothing of what was promised has been rebuilt. Could it have been the misplaced patriotic zeal of our leaders, who saw fit to pursue “American interest” thousands of miles away from home, “there”, rather than “here”, at home? Or could it be the greed of our obscenely rich bagmen, who will probably take another decade or more, bickering about maximizing their private profits in what all along ought to have been a national public undertaking, and not a private venture?
…Eight long years later, the tragic sight in upper Manhattan is no longer so much a condemnation of our enemies, that it once was and still is, as it is now an inglorious monument to our common American shame of neglect and inaction.
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