[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Can't believe people chose 9/11 over the damage and lives taken in things like the 2004 Tsunami or the earth quake in Haiti.. JustPlainLucas
Well, for one, it was an act of terrorism, and if you want to talk about psychological damage, 9/11 was far worse on America than any natural disaster to any other country, because Americans have been living in fear ever since.Ok now I know your talking out of yoru ass.. Why don't you tell that to the Haiti populace that are still living in shanty towns due to the earth quake, with a large scale Cholera outbreak claiming more lives.. The Tsunami wiped otu ENTIRE VILLAGES of people to which we have no idea now if they ever existed.. both claimed well over 100k lives indirectly and directly.. To some how suggest that 9/11 was a greater diseaster even though entire countries have never recovered from the other diseasters is ridiculous if I have ever seen one..
Look at the airports, look at homeland security, privacy breaches, patriot acts. Look at the fallout that affected other countries. Because of how America's changed, other countries have adapted as well.
Sure, by body count and property damages, 9/11 doesn't rank anywhere close to tsunamis, but more than just those two factors makes a tragedy memorable.
9/11 didn't put the entire country in shanty towns.. It did not wipe out entire communities of people off the face of the planet pretty much leaving numerous islands on the Tsunami hit area abandoned.. What your talking about is a knee jerk reaction of politicians taking advantage of fearmongering.. Outside of that our way of life has hardly changed compared to the people that had entire communities wiped out, their homes destroyed and have yet to rebuild and numerous other things.. The only reason why this may not seem "big deal" is because these countries are poor and do nto have any real say in the world what so ever compared to the political clout of the United States.. That doesn't some how make the tragedy less..
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