Jumbo, it is just so obvious to me that you don't understand how significant that event was. It was a watershed event that marked the awareness of how incredibly dangerous Islamic militants have become. It was then understood that they seek to kill as many people as possible and that No horrific act was outside their scope. What differentiated the 9/11 attack from everyday deaths that occur in the world was that fellow human beings INTENTIONALLY killed thousands of people for a cause that many don't understand. People from all over the world worked in those buildings and died in them. It held something like 50,000 people. It was VERY fortunate that MANY more people weren't killed. Sure some people say the attack was about turmoil in the middle east. They are just grasping for some kind of rational reason because we all need a sense of reason for everything. They don't understand the mentality of Wahabi Islam. They HATE outsiders. They are extremely xenophobic and view ANY influence from outside sources as corrupting and a threat to their society. They view attacks against such outsiders as ordained by their violent interpretation of god. Peace in the middle east will not satisfy these people. Only complete annihilation of western influence will do.