[ziggytrix]

I think their target was chosen for being a bastion of capitolism, not for an American bodycount. They were aiming a punch at America's wallet, and to them, the death of a thousand infidels was just collateral damage.

The majority of the essay was a look into why these people did what they did. ONE line compared, by use of hyperbole, the vicitms in the WTC to a Nazi murder. I don't agree with that comparison, but the rest of the essay should not be discounted.

"The destruction of the World Trade Center was a criminal act, the loss of life an unforgivable consequence, but it would be a crime of another order, with an even greater destructive potential, to allow the evocation of the word terror to descend like a veil over the event, to rob us of the opportunity to see ourselves as others see us." - John Edgar Wideman

In our eyes the bankers and lawyers just doing their jobs in the WTC were innocent victims, but clearly in the eyes of the terrorists they were not innocents. The first step in truly stopping these terrorists would be doing something about why the hate us, if that's even possible. If they hate us cuz we're good and they're evil, well then it's time for Holy War, and I hope there's something left of humanity when it's done.