Eh. It was a pretty iconic and effective terrorist attack
In some ways America has been very isolated from such things, while there had been a few big terrorist attacks in the states before 9/11 they tended to come from within the states. 9/11 was an attack from an external source. Over here we'd had a history (what with the IRA ect) of attacks from an external source in our own country. So there's the "novelty" of it to start.

Secondly it's rather usefull for a section of US society as it is a very definate atrocity that can be used to justify whatever the US wishes to do to a group of people very vaugely and tenuously connected to the attacks themselves. It's a very effective justification for the US when it comes to perpetuating wars in the middle east.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:48, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

They're like a five year old who grazed their knee while pulling up every single plant in the garden.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Oooo, that reminds me, must go and cut the grass

(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)

Oh boy, I totally cut the shit out of that grass.
That is grass that knows it's been cut.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:31, Reply)

LOL I WISH MY GRASS WOZ EMO CUZ DEN IT WUD CUT ITSELF LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Let's hurry up with that DNA test ;o)

( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)

Grass?
No, man, it's totally looking like a lawn now...
Boy, I wish I wasn't dyspraxic, then I'd totally challenge you to a game of croquet.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:52, Reply)

It would have to be travel croquet on our lawn, it's not very big
but if I ever throw a big party at my parents house I will be sure to get the croquet out.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:09, Reply)

the croquet my cock
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)

Lets be honest here Davros
the moment your wife is around my cock is well and truly out in the open whether I like it or not.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:16, Reply)

It would be useful on a lawn on a sunny day.
Instant sundial.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:26, Reply)

ew naked fat al

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)

Considerably more appealing than naked TGB
although I've never seen the grand canyon, so maybe it would at least be informative.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:09, Reply)

naked tgb would be disgusting
...wait
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I promise not only to shave my legs n lady garden for the occasion,
but to wax my 'tache n toes too!
*rubs thighs in dribbly excitement*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:28, Reply)

In a way, yes.
American foreign policy over the last few decades has hardly helped matters. Trouble is, most Americans are massively uninformed about world events or even what their own country is doing overseas... not exactly a criticism of Americans mind, more a criticism of media and news programmes that oversimplify or sometimes just plain ignore events from the rest of the world. While the actions of America as a country may well have lead in some part to the attacks Americans themselves as a whole felt justifiably shocked and stunned - in part because they where unaware of the various different factors and politcal manouvering that their own country was engaged in that played a part in what happened. I honestly wouldn't go so far as to say that America deliberately provoked the attacks, or the thousands of innocent people who died 9 years ago in some way deserved it - but American foreign policy before and after the event has a lot to answer for. Of course the people who drew up those policies and implemented them weren't the ones who suffered... but then again they rarely are.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:00, Reply)

I hardly think Al Queda woke up one morning and threw a dart board a map to find where to attack.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)

The people didn't deserve what happened, but the country did.
I can't believe they voted Bush in a second time, or even at all after what his father did.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:06, Reply)