So your premise is that if we build shorter buildings, they won't go after them?
They will go after what we ourselves define as "great". If we define the Rocky Mountians as our national treasure because of some environaut touchy feelgood thing. They will burn down the forest. If we have a Golden Gate bridge, they will topple it.
Just as offering land to the Palestinians encuraged them to send more suicide bombers, because they thought they were "winning". Building a huge, sick, mausoleum on lower manhattan will bring on more attacks.
That was my point.People are already defining a 'new bigger better building' as a national landmark filled with thousands more people and businesses.......it will become a massive bulleye 'in the face' of terrorists.
I would much rather we get in their face on a battlefield in the ME.......put the fight on their soil. If we were to suddenly get smart and not let these Islamic/Arabs in our Country then that would be a different story but we all know thats not gonna happen..... they are here,they have the funding and would LOVE to take out a building meant to replace the ones they take pride in destroying.They were a target and took hits before I'm more than certain any replacements would suffer the same fate of attack until it comes down.