No, not everything gets blamed on 9/11. Clinton gets blamed for allowing all the pre-9/11 terrorism to occur, unanswered, that led up to 9/11 ('93 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers bombing, African embassies bombings, USS Kole bombing). With a bolder response in the '90's, it wouldn't have happened.
Aside from that, you and your friends have a very convenient and selective amnesia about how devastating 9/11 was, and still is for the survivors and many Americans, and in nearly every element of the economy. Somebody on this thread, I believe, reluctantly acknowledged the other day that 9/11 did affect the travel industry (implying no one else was affected)!
I drove the NJ turnpike past NYC in Aug. '02, and listening to NYC talk radio in the car, you would have thought 9/11 had happened just the day before. People were weeping on the radio, wondering if and how they were going to get their lives back together. |
