There may be comeuppance due the US for its Latin America policies, but it is not in any way related to Osama, Al Qaeda, or Islamofascism. Using the suffering from the one as a platform to gloat regarding the other makes you and those you quoted look like tremendous douchebags.

Get a dictionary and look up Schadenfreude. It is not about being happy, but more about the comeuppance due Amerika and the ignorance of the Amerikan folk who see only the suffering of their citizens and either ignore or contribute greatly to the suffering of others around the world.

Also, being happy about America being attacked on 9/11 because of Operation Condor is morally equivalent to being happy about the hundreds of thousands who died in the tsunamis a couple years ago because Osama lives in Asia.

I absolutely wish all Americans would realize how hated the US by the governing elites of the world. Because then the next time there is an earthquake, a flood, a war, then they can be left to their own devices to wallow and die in their own misery: never again should America spend 1 dollar or 1 life to save Europeans, Iraqis, Chileans, Nicaraguans, Cubans, Venezuelans, or anyone else from Communism, Nazism, Fascism, Bolivarism, Chavezism, and the rest of what the world thinks of as “good government.” Let them live as they wish to live: leave them to their Jew-hating, America-hating, anti-Capitalist ways.

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I canceled my subscription immediately. And I’ve never took part in hypocritical “vigils” on Union Square.

I say: let the wounded grieve at home in silence and let’s stop all this religious public grieving nonsense. Even better, let’s start grieving a little for all the Asian and South American civilians our policies have affected.

Who out there thinks that 3000 American lives are worth endless religious ceremonies while the lives of the hundreds of thousands of homeless, raped, tortured, disappeared and bombed at our hands are worth so little?

Every 9/11 memorial amounts to nothing more than yet another narcissistic celebration of the callousness of our American policies.

When I saw the twin towers collapse on TV at a friend’s house in Rio de Janeiro, it was from a perspective far different from that of my fellow Americans. I hate to throw a cold bucket on the vociferous grieving here in the USA, but the fact is that many of my fellow Latins still harbor bitter memories of Operation Condor and other recent American interventions in the internal affairs of Latin countries that led to deaths and “disappearances” of tens of thousands of Latins. Not only Castro, but other heads of state like Kirchner, Bachelet, Morales, Lula, and Chavez have good reason to despise American policies. My experiences of Latins’ sentiments on that September 11 day is well summed up by an insightful article that appeared in the German magazine Der Spiegel four days after the attack. I quote it here in full, with credit to the original in German:

[translated from German]

The Mood turns against the Cowboy
“Stimmung gegen den Cowboy” Original in German — http://www.spiegel.de/

The attack at the heart of the USA causes not only mourning and horror. In Latin America, one also senses secret Schadenfreude.

Actually, they had met for dinner. Then the eight Brazilian friends sat just like all the world before the TV and focused on the scenes of catastrophe in New York.

Two doctors, an entrepreneur, a professor and a journalist were there — educated, friendly, sophisticated people from Rio de Janeiro — two of them with children who study in Boston. Like anyone, they were full of sympathy for the victims. However, that sympathy expressly excluded the USA.

Maybe it was the pictures that reminded them of a trailer of “Independence Day” and satisfied the eyes more than the head: everything appears unreal, an alien attacks the earth — the flame ripping up the tower, the dust that rages through the housing canyons of Manhattan and drives the people before it. Then come the politicians in their patriotic dress. By the time of the pep-rally speech by the president, the Brazilian friends had renamed the film they saw running there. It was now called, rather derogatorily, “Criminal Court.”

The doctor says that the Americans she knows are helpful and nice — and ignorant with respect to foreign countries, “They simply assume that all world loves them.” And her husband adds, “Now they are amazed that it is not so.”

“Their politics is the problem,” the journalist offers while ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger demands bombardment of Afghanistan, “Bush is an illiterate, and that makes him dangerous”. Murmur of agreement. It is all directed against TV-pictures that cause sympathy world-wide, but they brace themselves against the so-called solidarity.

“They thought they were invulnerable,” the entrepreneur says not without malice, “and then a dozen people enter the country and explode everything into the air.” After which the group, not without head-shaking admiration, discusses the perfect logistics of the assassins.

Nobody among the friends is Muslim. Islam is of no importance to them. They go to Hollywood-films, they like Frank Sinatra, they buy Häagen Dasz ice cream. However, it is almost as if those insane fanatics have articulated, in the most brutal way, the dark sentiment of resistance that lives in the breast of the cultivated Latin American.

“It is an attack on freedom,” says George W. Bush. “Nonsense,” the doctor says. “It is an attack on the USA.” And as Kissinger speaks — the man who shares responsibility for dictatorships in Latin America — nothing but disgust is registered in this cultivated group.

Just the day before, Kissinger was accused of participating in the murder of a Chilean general unwilling to take part in a coup d’etat. Many would like to see him stand trial before a court of law. Now he is a world-strategist, speaking of “wiping out” Evil — not with one single stroke of vengeance, but with a “systematic attack.” The doctor says, “That means war.”

The longer they sit together before the TV, the more they share in their anti-Americanism. And in their fear they feel that, “one can only pray that Bush commit no egregious error.“

The Brazilian daily of the next morning continues the protest bluntly. “This attack,” a commentator writes in the Jornal do Brasil, “is not surprising.” Thereupon follows the list of political failures — Washington has brazenly quit the Kyoto climate agreement, ignores the racism in its own country and intervenes in the cultures of other nations.

Even more heartless, another commentator, writes, “Pepper in the eye of another does no harm; it only burns only in one’s own.” The USA felt no sorrow for the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nor for the civilians in Vietnam. Nor for the victims of the dictatorships they supported in Latin America. There is even open schadenfreude: “This cowboy doesn’t draw as quickly as he claims,” O Globo writes, “and he is vulnerable.”

And it’s not only the absolutely “americanized “ colossus of Brazil that manifests these sentiments. In numerous press commentaries in Latin America, “solidarity” is more often denied than confirmed. The invitation to participate in common mourning is refused.

In recent months, the new politics of the USA has reminded many folks of the old politics. The fact that Bush has recently filled key posts pertaining to his Latin American politics with old warriors from the Reagan-Contra Era has not escaped notice, but instead has aroused the old fears.

The day of the catastrophe has also revealed that it is not just about fanatical Palestinian women, who pass through the streets trilling, while their sons shoot volleys of ecstasy into the air. Not just about discussion forums on Chinese websites that find understanding for the perpetrators. It is about the “millions of people in the third world who are condemned to die under the American hegemony.”

No, the resentment against the USA exploits their darkest day as an occasion to give expression to long-suppressed sentiments — and with it to counter the official rank-closing of the heads of state with the White House.

And so one thing becomes clear: Their fear in beholding an injured cowboy, who in vengeance might pull off a wild shot. “One thing is sure,” one of the eight friends says this evening, “the 21st Century has begun and things look bad for our children.”

MATTHIAS MATUSSEK

Yep, That still gets me. I also do wonder why they appointed Henry Kissinger(a man who has worked for the Saudis much of his life) to head the 9/11 comission and why did he resign when asked about this?

Why keep funding/supporting the most fundamentalist islamic wacko regime in the mid-east(Saudi Arabia)?

Smells like a false-flag event to me. It wouldn’t be the first one. I feel more in danger today than ever. The WOT has increased the number of terrorist in the world and weakend us financially.

Washington DC is a more dangerous enemy to my family than the people in Afgahnistan. DC politicians rob my family every time I get paid, they send it to Goldman Sachs bankers/Baby Boomer retirees who have know moral qualms with ponzi schemes/haliburton executives selling $400 hammers and people who don’t feel like working.

If the Taliban was so bad then why was Bush and Clinton giving them money right up until 9/11/2001? “Fighting the drug war” is what the government says. More stupidity.

The USA became great by respecting private property and the rights of individual. Now we are decaying as we expand government power to dominate every aspect of the individual. Obama has merely continued the agendas that the Bushes/Clintons/Nixons and FDR’s pushed forward.

not going after the saudi government also bled a lot of the justification for the WOT.

abandoning the machinery of culture to the left has led to the current situation you describe, where internal subversion is so prevalent. thank you GOP.

Orwell said something like “No ordinary person could believe that; it would take an intellectual to believe something so stupid.” It’s gotten worse since he wrote that.

Awful. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those who perished that day.

The phone rang — it was a business colleague who was in San Juan. What about the plane that had hit the Pentagon? What plane?? It must have happened when I was parking underground, no radio signal. I turned around — a pillar of smoke to the north, no, more than a pillar — it obscured a third of the sky from the window. A wall of smoke. I went to the balcony outside — people from the building’s offices were all lining the rail. Emergency vehicles were already streaming northward — fire engines, ambulances, police — and soon a solid stream of cars moved south — all the offices in DC and Arlington were closing, everybody was heading for home.

I got a call from my lunch appointment, who had been flying down from New York — he had been on the tarmac at LaGuardia, queued for takeoff. Suddenly the planes started to turn around and head back to the terminal. Soon I started walking home — only a nice fifteen minute walk. Steady stream of southbound cars. At home, our Japanese au pair was shaken. She had been on the Tokyo subway a few years earlier when the Aum Sacred Truth nut cult let the nerve gas loose — nowhere near her, fortunately, but she remembered being suddenly herded up the stairs and out some random station by stern-faced police. She wondered whether terrorism was bound to follow her wherever she went.

For a while, it was “normal” that the Pentagon was on fire — I can no longer remember how long, but it seemed like weeks. It was “normal” that the metro slowed but did not stop at the Pentagon station, and armed troops in camos lined the platform. It was “normal” that Reagan National Airport was silent and empty when the train went by it. If you woke up in the middle of the night, you could hear the fighters circling overhead.