'like and angry drunk in a bar'

[zippy890]

"Of course America was enraged and fearful after the attacks. But reacting to the attacks as we did, like an angry drunk in a bar, was not in our national interests. It was vital that we think clearly about our response, who attacked us, why they did, and what our most effective response would be. But here the American establishment ran up against its ideological blind spot -- its received ideas about the Arab/Muslim world. Combined with the hysterical emotionalism, those ideas, which amount to a kind of de facto bigotry, allowed Bush to push through one of the most bizarrely gratuitous wars in history."

(snip)

from The real Lessons of 9/11 by Gary Kamiya
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/09/11/911_lessons/


"Sept. 11 was a hinge in history, a fork in the road. It presented us with a choice. We could find out who attacked us, surgically defeat them, address the underlying problems in the Middle East, and make use of the outpouring of global sympathy to pull the rest of the world closer to us. Or we could lash out blindly and self-righteously, insist that the only problems in the Middle East were created by "extremists," demonize an entire culture and make millions of new enemies. "
(snip)

makes it doubly sad and tragic, to look back and think how we could have handled it, how things could have been done so much better.

instead the worst kind of reaction by US govt.

I hope we as a people can learn the real lessons.

[jdlh8894]

1. I hope we as a people can learn the real lessons.

And,what would be your solution to the problem?
State your case.