perspective.

Ten years ago, today, the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time. I was in Albany, contemplating whether I would move to New York City for college. I don't remember exactly where I was when I found out (unlike the subsequent attack, which I remember all too well), but I definitely felt a firm detachment from the event, as if nothing like that could ever touch me.

The editorial I linked is a tasteless call to arms that uses the WTC disasters in name to justify the use of force in another part of the world, against a different enemy. I agree with the writer that underestimating your enemy is the worst mistake of battle, but it's eye-for-eye retaliation like this that results in absurd levels of military escalation in the first place.

But then, I guess I shouldn't expect much more from The Post. From The Times, here is where we were, then, and here is where we are now.