The World’s Response to 9/11

I was in Fuechtwangen, Germany on Saturday September 29th having flown into the country not long after the groundstop was lifted in the US. My friend and I went out for gelato and were caught in a sudden rain shower. We ran to the nearest shelter - a church portico - and waited for the rain slacken. The choir was in the church sanctuary practicing for the next day's service and they were singing "God Bless America". It was a moving experience.

I would like to know what did they do in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Ho chi minh city (former Saigon) and many other places.

Of course they were sympathetic. They were glad to see America join the fray, like after Pearl Harbor.

You can virtually add the entire southern hemisphere of places that suffered for DECADES of U.S. terror.

And they don't have to be told to "never forget" either.

Not quite...
Arafat made a show of donating blood. Palestinians danced in the streets and distributed candy.
Israel built a memorial to 9/11.

I know you're going to say that you just copied the text, like with the olive oil thing a few weeks ago, but come on. Everyone remembers the dancing in the street.

It would be foolhardy for any nation not to at least have the appearance of sympathy for the US in 9/11. They are after all the dominant superpower.

Of course, the big and sad joke about this tacky little piece of indoctrination is it's insistence that "we are FREE and our society is FREE."

Nothing could be further from the truth, and what little freedoms U.S. society still has is being fast eroded by "keepin' 'em in fear"

Wow, what an abundance of bitter, cynical, and hateful responses.

Aw, the cynicism is out in full force tonight I see. People all over the world expressed their sadness and grief for what happened not out of intimidation or fear but because they're human and that's what humans do, especially when so many from so many nations were affected that day. About 30 Canadians died in the attacks, and the whole country mourned. One of the most striking images from that week was from a village in arctic, Inuit people gathered together with candles praying for the lives lost, not just for those Canadians, but for everyone in those buildings and planes. People so far away, with concerns so far removed from our silly world, took time from their very immediate ones to make statement of sadness. So yeah, you can think what you like, it's just sad you can't believe people feel genuine heartfelt emotions for others.

In France too some people, notably in bad suburbs, were rejoicing and dancing in the street.
But 99% of the French condemned the atrocity.

Bumper stickers and publications like "WE SHALL NEVER FORGET 9/11. The Kids' Book of Freedom" make me cynical. A decade after 9/11, I am more inclined to believe that 9/11 was a CIA Black Op, carried out to gain the support of the American people for a phoney war in the Middle East, the point of which was to destabilise the region.

That would be funny, Simon Says, if it weren't for the fact that there are people who actually believe that. But think about it. Would they have really had to go to such lengths to get support for such a war? That's massive overkill.

Plus, we've heard a lot from conspiracy theorists who fanatically latch onto one seeming inconsistency, even when the inconsistency is based solely on non-empirical observation. But we haven't actually heard from one whistleblower, one "Deep Throat", who was involved in this supposedly enormous conspiracy.

Where's the guy who worked for the demolition company that pre-wired the towers to blow so perfectly. What happened to the plane that didn't actually crash into the Pentagon? Why hasn't it turned up somewhere with a new coat of paint?

You can't keep a secret that big in the government, or in the military. Someone will talk. Bill Clinton couldn't keep an intern under his desk without it making the front pages.

Somebody who seemed otherwise intelligent, once told me that all the Jews who worked in the WTC stayed home that morning. How did they know? it doesn't matter - start a rumour, and no matter how stupid, someone will believe it.

I remember the day because I had just come back from a job interview; on the train home my father phoned from Eire and said "Well..?" and I told him what questions were asked, how I felt I'd done etc. He paused and said "not about that, about the news".. and I was somewhat annoyed he didn't care but equally confused because living in Northern Ireland it wasn't really mentioned and I'd gone my whole day without having heard of the bombings. Though that being said, with the US funding terrorists in Northern Ireland for years, though it was breaking news, it equally wasn't a huge surprise and didn't dominate the news for long.

It is indeed unfortunate that the U.S. has squandered the global outpouring of support in so cavalier a fashion. "Cowboy fashion" was Bush's style and it did not do his country well.

Unfortunately (and amazingly), Obama has not distanced himself from it and so now becomes part of the same problem.

Sad. Really sad.

The latest euphemism in the (US) arsenal, "Credible but unconfirmed" ... What the hell! What kind of a society keeps it population in absolute fear, at the same time telling them to go about their daily lives? Keep on shopping ... i.imgur.com/oGndQ.jpg

Good lord, what is wrong with most of you. This is a day to remember lives lost not to critique American foreign policy. You have every other day of your lives to do that...........Show a little respect for people who were people living their daily lives, which btw were from all over the world and had no connection with any problems you have with America. A different day or forum ok