Lol at Rhanfahl
Not at your expirience from that day, but how you say it was a good thing that after 9/11 everyone came out together as "Americans"

What we all saw as "Patriotism" was a simple reaction of solidarity forged by previously unknown fear. The Bush administration no longer needed to worry about divisions amongst factions in America, because the biggest threat was unanimously seen as coming from abroad. With everyone pooling together, afraid to appear unpatriotic, opposition to the administration's policies, slogans and responses were muted. Corrections or suggestions for improving the agenda could also be put on the snide.

While the "stupid shit bickering over poltics" as you put it, stopped dead, so too were all the limitations on the President imprisoned for the cause of "fighting terror". The policies that have come out of the "Patriotic, Proud American Response" to 9/11 are arguably the least humanitarian of our nation's history since the Japanese Interment. Our invasion of Iraq and the heavy political pressure we have put on every nation "in order to thrwart terrorism" has broken the chains on the American behemoth. While we have killed a great deal of our enemies, we have failed to stop the process by which terrorists are nurtured and maintained. The enemies that are still left are hardened, more resolved than ever, and the people whose lives were turned upside down by US foreign policy have understandably been disillusioned with our work.

The question isn't what does 9/11 mean four years after the fact. The question should be, how far have we come since then? Are we heading in the direction where this sort of thing will be prevented in the future? Can we continue to be the world's superpower without garnering foes from every corner of the globe?