zoethe explains, quite eloquently, why it's time to actually DO something with the WTC site in Manhattan: Nine Years On"Stop worrying about the mosque three blocks away being some kind of victory for the jihadists; the gaping hole of Ground Zero is the best victory monument we could possibly build for them. And it will continue to be so when it's turned into a couple reflecting pools and a park. For decades, people will be able to point to that area and say, "That's where the USA handed over prime real estate to radical Islam."
Also, check this out: "They hated our freedoms, so we instituted warrantless wiretapping, electronic surveillance and denied habeus corpus..."
(Thanks to Mike for hipping me to both of these entries.)
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Look at Pearl Harbor. We didn't turn that into a memorial park. We put a memorial in place there later, yes, but mainly what we did was keep using it as a port, keep using it for its intended purpose, and that was the most fitting tribute we could have made, because we WON in the end.
The designs now being brought into reality on and around the WTC site seem to me a balanced approach. New towers around the original Twin Towers' site to replace the old and continue the work that was done in their predecessors, taller than before. What's in place of the old Towers now...shows respect to the dead and the living alike.
Not a whit of it's intended to give even an inch to any enemy past, present or future.