September 11: Questions Worth Asking

Our friend Stu Bykofsky has a wonderful column in today's Philadelphia Daily News in advance of the 19th anniversary of Sepyember 11.
In it, he asks us to turn back the clock to that day and ask ourselves some important questions.
Here is a brief excerpt:

The attack on New York, the Pentagon and western Pennsylvania is what started the war, remember? Today, most of us barely notice. The war is like a screen saver. Just wallpaper.
How might we mark 9/11's 50th anniversary? With the sober elation of victory, or the shame of defeat?
Ten years ago, our tear-stained faces turned upward toward vanished towers, we said, "Everything has changed."
In his award-winning column addressed to the terrorists, the Miami Herald's Leonard Pitts wrote, "When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice."
Would he write those words today? Would they be true?

 Click here to read the full column.