Originally Posted By FaMulan <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14753927/site/newsweek/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14 753927/site/newsweek/</a> A take on what may have been if different decisions had been made. A nice fantasy, so far from our reality.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 And IF Stee Bartman doesn't attend the playoff game against the Marlin,s the Cubs go to and win the 2003 World Series... about the same leel of speculation -- just see no need for this type of article except to further divide - and both sides do that VERY well
Originally Posted By DAR Now is not the time to speculate what we should have done leading up to the day. Now is the time where we should focus on what we need to do.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Yep, both sides great at playing " what if Bush had done this ?" or "what is Clinton had done that" -- the fact of the matter is we are where we are because neither one of them was perfect, nor shoul we have expected them to be -- hack journalists
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Now is not the time to speculate what we should have done leading up to the day. Now is the time where we should focus on what we need to do.<< Right. As Aerosmith sang: "the past is gone".
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Right. As Aerosmith sang: "the past is gone".>> "Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it." I feel much better about the future of America today than I did in those awful first few weeks after 9/11. But I have to tell you the truth; I felt much better about the future of American on 9/11/2002 than I do today.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I think that there is a difference between ignoring history vs. not obsessing on the past.