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I should have specified — the media spectacle. It was a nonstop pity party on TV. However, the public remembrances in my area were also excessively focused on grief and "understanding" rather than justifiable anger for this outrage. That's what Steyn was talking about, and what I was agreeing with. The culture at large is still too obsessed with feeling and healing in the wake of 9-11, and the nation may pay the price of another attack as a result. If we "put it behind us" and go back to sleep, America will still be vulnerable. Self-pity and navel-gazing (as a nation) are exactly the wrong reaction, and a surefire way to lose the War on Terror.