Comments on: 9/11 Remembered http://xrdarabia.org/2009/09/11/911-remembered/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chiara http://xrdarabia.org/2009/09/11/911-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-23546 Chiara Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:28:35 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=8740#comment-23546 I was impressed with the relative lack of fuss this year, and with a headline suggesting part of the fuss in the past was the GWB need to stake his presidency on 9/11, a need Obama rejects. Interesting article, which didn't reflect much on the impact of American foreign policy on the reactions to and the fact of 9/11. I agree with the idea of an evolution to a "new normal", and it's been harder to get there for the media overattention to the anniversary in the past. I was impressed with the relative lack of fuss this year, and with a headline suggesting part of the fuss in the past was the GWB need to stake his presidency on 9/11, a need Obama rejects.

Interesting article, which didn’t reflect much on the impact of American foreign policy on the reactions to and the fact of 9/11.

I agree with the idea of an evolution to a “new normal”, and it’s been harder to get there for the media overattention to the anniversary in the past.

]]> By: John Burgess http://xrdarabia.org/2009/09/11/911-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-23545 John Burgess Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:16:39 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=8740#comment-23545 Hmmm... I haven't had an anniversary for nearly a year. Might you be confusing me with someone else? Hmmm… I haven’t had an anniversary for nearly a year. Might you be confusing me with someone else?

]]> By: Sparky http://xrdarabia.org/2009/09/11/911-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-23544 Sparky Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:44:05 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=8740#comment-23544 Interesting article and take on it... I think expecting something like this to happen again here (in the USA) is F'd up! I hope that attitude of expecting the worst and and expecting it to happen is not the sole thing that allows one to move on. Interesting article and take on it…

I think expecting something like this to happen again here (in the USA) is F’d up!

I hope that attitude of expecting the worst and and expecting it to happen is not the sole thing that allows one to move on.

]]> By: Swedish http://xrdarabia.org/2009/09/11/911-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-23543 Swedish Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:45:15 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=8740#comment-23543 I heard on Oprah that after a tragic event things change forever--and her motto is that things are not back to normal but rather "a new normal". Your right, it is just a part of us now, and I have accepted it as part of my past. ( I was down at ground zero--one mile away when it happened. I was a baxket case on the first two anniversaries but I am o.k. now) John, by the way Happy Belated Anniversary. ( Your wedding I mean) I heard on Oprah that after a tragic event things change forever–and her motto is that things are not back to normal but rather “a new normal”. Your right, it is just a part of us now, and I have accepted it as part of my past. ( I was down at ground zero–one mile away when it happened. I was a baxket case on the first two anniversaries but I am o.k. now)

John, by the way Happy Belated Anniversary. ( Your wedding I mean)

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