9/11 was the Pearl Harbor, for us, of the worldwide Islamic jihad, a very dispersed, intractable, fanatical, well funded conspiratorial group with thousands of members and potentially millions of supporters, and receiving the clandestine support of a number of states.
This is not to minimize the trauma and grief caused by 9/11.
These words of yours do just that, though: "but the incessent focus on it is making me less, rather than more, sympathetic to the victims' families."
And it is believed that Al Qaeda has a presence within the US among the resident Muslim population. There was no equivalent situation after Dec 7, 1941: the Japanese represented a tiny, highly concentrated, and overwhelmingly loyal population of American citizens. |
