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Alan Moore said something along the lines of "pulling 2000 dead people out of a pile of rubble is a daily occurrence in some countries."
I have to agree with him. I come from a country that has been experiencing terrorism for decades. It's life. It stinks, but you get on with it.
So typically American to keep wittering on about trauma 6 years after the fact. I think the real trauma that took place on that day was the realization for Americans that their country is not invulnerable.
How many people here, of those complaining about Cloverfield's similarly to 9/11, have ever enjoyed a film about Vietnam? WWI? WWII? About horrible things that really happened to people all over the world? The liberals wringing their hands about Cloverfield and the conservatives cheering on the slaughter of innocent Iraqis are both saying the same thing: "We're Americans - how dare you attack us." America's pain is different, I guess. We all need to take it much more seriously than the pain and violence inflicted upon others. Because after all, they are not Americans.
Yes, it was horrible. Yes, it was a tragedy. Welcome to the world.
