Nope, it sure won’t (maybe it’s better it’s left as a hole at this point), but the story about why it’s still a hole is a pretty sobering one, and makes you pretty glad Pataki’s presidential ambitions seem to be going nowhere.
In the pit where the tallest buildings in America were once built, a 50 ton piece of the wreckage of that building has been returned to the site and stood up. Another piece about the same size will be added later in the week. It will, someday, maybe, serve as the entrance to a museum at the site.
We are well and thoroughly fu**ed if that’s all we’ve managed to do in 9 years. If we were Americans, we would have used every bit of that steel to make weapons, and added it to a global effort to eliminate the threat. Then, when that was over, we would have come home and built some new buildings, taller prouder, stronger than what had been there before.
Radical Islam has been fighting the U.S. since at least the late’70’s when the Iranians took Captives when they attacked the Embassy. This dance has gone on for far too long, and all the “Reaching Out” by the State Dept. and “Kinder, Gentler Rules of Engagement” by the D.O.D. won’t stop it. Way past time to close this Waltz down. For a bunch of Terrorists who want to bring back the Middle Ages, it’s time to “Get Medieval on their Asses”. Time’s Up.
September 11th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
A pretty monument isn’t going to bring anyone back.
September 11th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Nope, it sure won’t (maybe it’s better it’s left as a hole at this point), but the story about why it’s still a hole is a pretty sobering one, and makes you pretty glad Pataki’s presidential ambitions seem to be going nowhere.
September 11th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Will not bring anyone back but it would at least then stop being a monument to government inefficiency.
September 11th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I rest my case ;).
September 11th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
We are so disfunctional as a country that we couldn’t even manage to build anything in an empty field in Pennsylvania.
September 11th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
From my post on this same topic last week:
In the pit where the tallest buildings in America were once built, a 50 ton piece of the wreckage of that building has been returned to the site and stood up. Another piece about the same size will be added later in the week. It will, someday, maybe, serve as the entrance to a museum at the site.
We are well and thoroughly fu**ed if that’s all we’ve managed to do in 9 years. If we were Americans, we would have used every bit of that steel to make weapons, and added it to a global effort to eliminate the threat. Then, when that was over, we would have come home and built some new buildings, taller prouder, stronger than what had been there before.
September 12th, 2010 at 12:15 am
Radical Islam has been fighting the U.S. since at least the late’70’s when the Iranians took Captives when they attacked the Embassy. This dance has gone on for far too long, and all the “Reaching Out” by the State Dept. and “Kinder, Gentler Rules of Engagement” by the D.O.D. won’t stop it. Way past time to close this Waltz down. For a bunch of Terrorists who want to bring back the Middle Ages, it’s time to “Get Medieval on their Asses”. Time’s Up.
September 12th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
The mosque will be finished before the monument will. Its nice we have our priorities straight.
BTW, the Empire State building was built in 410 days