I completely agree. While I flinched at first at the way Ann put that remark, she was right on point. It also would not have generated any airplay without the way it was put.
It is notable that nowhere has anyone actually contested the substance of either this one contextless sentence or the main point of the book writ large. In tennis, that would be an ace.
When we talked about what happened on 9/11, he acted as if the events belonged to New York, and New York alone. He took a pious position, stating, "How dare you speak of this incident like it somehow belongs to you!"
He went on to proclaim that George Bush shouldn't be using 9/11 to justify his presidential campaign in 2004. "It was the watershed event in the past four years, why wouldn't he run on his actions?" I said.
I had to remind him, the attacks of 9/11 happened to America, not to one particular person or group of people.
Thinking about this, I too, see Ann's point. She's not illogical about her thinking, that's for sure.