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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. These were "a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks [...] against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001."
Of the 2,977 people who died, 2,605 were U.S. citizens and 372 non-U.S. citizens (excluding the 19 perpetrators). More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks, including the United Kingdom (67 deaths), the Dominican Republic (47 deaths), India (41 deaths), Greece (39 deaths), South Korea (28 deaths), Canada (24 deaths), Japan (24 deaths), Colombia (18 deaths), Jamaica (16 deaths), Philippines (16 deaths), Mexico (15 deaths), Trinidad and Tobago (14 deaths), Ecuador (13 deaths), Australia (11 deaths), Germany (11 deaths), Italy (10 deaths), Bangladesh (6 deaths), Ireland (6 deaths), Pakistan (6 deaths), and Poland (6 deaths).
It was a tragedy not only for America, but for the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @09:49PM (1 child)
And . . . ? What's your point? That it can be ignored? That more attention should be paid to vehicle accidents? Some other unrelated third thing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @02:43PM
Probably that 20 years of warfare and over-the-horizon drone terrorism, even blowing up such dastardly villains as Doctors Without Borders, is not a proportionate response.
Probably also other things like backscatter cancer machines at airports too.
Imagine if we devoted a fraction of those resources to the eradication of COVID. Instead we're murdering our own children, who can't be vaccinated, while hyperventilating about vaccines.