Well That Didn't Work

AMERICA THE ARROGANT
So they're laying the first brick (or huge slab of granite, as it were) of the 1,776 foot "Freedom Tower" today. Isn't our country truly brilliant? I mean, what went on in the meetings of the people who were designing this thing?

"Let's show the world just how arrogant we can be by building
the tallest building in the world."
Instead of promoting the understanding of why 9/11 happened, why the terrorists felt it necessary to attack a civilian building, and what we can do to prevent not only the terrorist acts in the future but also their sentiments, we have decided to defend our almost "macho" sense of American pride (comparable to the common American male's repeated defense of his own sexuality) by building a structure even bigger than those that were destroyed on 9/11. Is it just me, or are we actually giving terrorists a reason to hate America and its people even more? While I understand why the architects chose 1,776 feet to be the height of their structure, I'd like to remind the world how most of the people in the Twin Towers died on 9/11. Very few people perished by actually being in or being hit by one of the airplanes that struck the towers and only a slightly larger number of people were killed by the fire that the engine fuel maintained. Most of the people who died on 9/11 died because they couldn't escape the buildings and were killed when they collapsed. Point: Skyscrapers are dangerous. The designs of the Twin Towers were not conducive to the rescue or escape efforts of the people working in lower Manhattan that day. Now, I'm not proposing that we knock down every building over ten stories or even that we stop building skyscrapers all together, but we've reached a point where the financial advantage to building upward rather than buying more land and building outward risks human life. Human life will always be more valuable than office space...at least that's what little, insignificant me thinks. Apparently the architects and contractors rebuilding the World Trade Center site think otherwise, but what else is to be expected from American capitalists?

"Let's make a bigger target for terrorist activity the in northeast."
Why did the terrorists chose the Twin Towers? Hmm...very interesting. The fact that they were two large, civilian filled structures located in the center of the financial district of the city that is considered to be the economic heart of our country were probably reasons that weighed in to the terrorists' decision, no? Wait a minute! The Freedom Tower is going to be a large, civilian filled structure. And *gasp* its in the center of the financial district of the city that is considered to be the economic heart of our country. Brilliance, sheer brilliance. Ok, so this argument is a bit farfetched--sue me.

People wonder why the international community considers us to be ignorant, arrogant fools. Here it is, plain and simple: we are.
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