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In hindsight (for me), the US reaction to terrorism has kept delivering wins to terrorists to this day. How many trillions have been spent fighting terrorism; a problem in which the likelihood of any one of us being killed in acts of terrorism is somewhere around the likelihood of getting shot by Alec Baldwin. So, we'll continue to strip-search passengers before flights, confiscate their belongings, and never figure out how to handle the volume of passengers through security checkpoints in a reasonable amount of time... just to give the illusion that we're all safe from Alec terrorists.
The pit they memorialized in Manhattan is a colossal waste of space and money. Too bad angry mobs destroying monuments focused attention on things like deer statues instead of filling in the pit.
I mean no disrespect to the victims of the tragedy, and there should be something to memorialize the day, and a response to terrorism was warranted. Starting a war in an unrelated country, making sure passengers don't have toothpaste and deodorant, and creating an enormous functionally useless pit in prime real estate aren't the proper actions.
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