Sixteen years on and it has faded for most, or at least seems to have done so. I was lucky enough to have gotten to attend the family-only memorial at ground zero a few years ago.
It seems that the cause of the mass murder is lessened. And here we are, 16 years on still fighting in Afghanistan, for what I do not think we know.
It got generalized out to a feud against al-Queda. Should it have been? The Bushes didn’t want to call Saudi Arabia to account for apparently winking at it. Oh no, the oil!
16 years later. Donald Trump is finally admonishing the governments of Islamic countries to police Islamic activity if they want to be counted part of the civilized world.