If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack - just shrugged and rebuilt the building - it would have been better than the real course of history

it was an inside job by CIA,now they don't need 9/11 anymore

Well, yeah, maybe; BUT, what if the world had seen some of the MANY security videos seized immediately following the "attack" on the Pentagon? What if the 911 Commission had been forthright with the truth? What if the American people had DEMANDED A VALID explaination of why there was NO DEBRIS FROM A JETLINER AT THE PA CRASH SITE? The questions go on and on, and until they are answered we will never really know if it had been better if we had ignored the 9/11 "attack" or NOT. I mean, what the hell do we absolutely know for a fact is real in regard to 9/11anyway? NOT not very damn much, THAT'S WHAT.

Ask your Congresspeople this question:WHY did the worlds greatest military power FAIL to defend even its own HQ?

The cause of 9/11 is the big elephant in the room. The truth hurts and most Americans aren't ready just yet to deal with the pain.  The "can't happen here" crowds still sees America through blinders.  Just wave the flag and everything will be all better.  We used to be a great country.  Not anymore. We're mistrusted everywhere and our president is an international joke.

sure it makes sense, but think back to the day of 9/11. Did ANYONE want to just ignore it?

If the entire Muslim world was a global conspiracy to destroy our freedoms and end our country, then why OH WHY are we not bombing every country in the region into dust?   Answer: Because the threat is overblown.If this threat is so real and such a massive present danger to our way of life, then why OH WHY don't we have a draft?  If the future of America hangs in the balance and things are so damn dangerous, you'd think conscription would be our NUMBER ONE priority.  But, no.It's all bullshit.  Remember the old saying, "Blood Is Thicker Than Water".Well, bullshit is thicker than blood.

the smartest thing to due after 911 would have been to pour money into securing our borders to minimize the likelihood of an event like this ever happening again...

Look, the solution to this problem would have been very simple, and it could have been accomplished without invading a single goddamn country - Put a bounty on Osama's head and the heads of anyone near the top of his organization.  I'm not talking about the piddly $50 million we have on his head now - I mean a few orders of magnitude larger than that.  I think $50 billion would have done the trick, and that still would have been much, much cheaper than Iraq and Afghanistan, and ONLY those who we wanted would have been apprehended/killed. 

It's too early to tell, I think. Ask me again in another five years.   

yeah, you can't do nothing when 4000 people die!!! Except if they are, say, Iraqis (we've killed more than 4000), or people who die of lung cancer (100000 a year), or people who die in Rwanda, or people who die of automobile accidents. You HAVE TO INVADE A COUNTRY AND KILL EVERYONE AND SPEND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS DOING SO!!! Otherwise you're a pussy, obviously.

Decades of "doing nothing" or very little is what resulted in the attacks of 9/11. Clinton was a pussy, Bush Sr was a pussy, and Reagan was a pussy.  They all backed down after international pressure.  I hate the war in Iraq, but I think it has been adequately demonstrated that a policy of placating critics ultimately accomplishes very little.

Doing nothing would have been better than what happened --- we wouldn't be pissing trillions into an illegal war and inciting more and more hatred against us.  Doing nothing wouldn't be the best thing to do, but it would be better than how our government reacted.

The saudis were behind this and yet we attack afghanistan.  Al Qaeda is behind the support for troops in Afghanistan, so we attack IRAQ.  Radical muslim clerics are telling young people in Saudi Arabia to go fight the infidel in IRAQ and we kill civillians by the thousands.  OUR TAXES PAY FOR THIS WAR, HALLIBURTON, KBR & BLACKWATER ARE PROFITING OFF THE LIVES OF OUR SERVICEMEN.  ENOUGH ALREADY.

In in the long run going to war versus just "ignoring" the situation would have been better i suppose but how the hell are you going to ignore all the deaths and blatent attack on our country.  More attacks would have happened had war not been started. Couldn't just sit back like pussies and get smacked around.

Comment 2 is ludicrous. Take your conspiracy BS somewhere else. You would hate Bush no matter what so your opinion and "theory" hold little weight.

Sticking your head in the sand and hoping terrorists just dont blow up the next set of buildings is idiocy and cowardess.

sylvie-b,The question is not, what would have been the best thing to have done; the question is how would doing nothing have compared to what actually was done.  It's an indictment of what actually occured, not a statement that it is optimal to do nothing.

America has become a culture of victims. But you can not act if there is no verifiable intel. We are sheep.

Attack WHO exactly?  Even if you believe the (laughable at the time, and more so today) official story, then we should be attacking SAUDI ARABIA...you know - the homosexual Papa Bears of both bush fuckups. How about we go after the people who were (supposedly) behind the attacks?  Oops, too late, they went and blew themselves up. I know, lets go after the ORGANIZATION that (again, suppossedly) provided the motivation and assistance with the attack!  Al Queda...wtf?  Did Al Queda provide no-check visas for entry into the US to the highjackers?  Did Al Queda issue an exacutive order EXPLICITLY STATING that the highjackers WERE NOT to be arrested, mere days BEFORE 9/11?  Did Al Queda Ship out of country all the physical evidence to be destroyed BEFORE it could be examined, and the relatives of the highjackers EXPLICITLY SO THEY COULD NOT BE QUESTIONED?  Did Al Queda sit in a bunker saying "do not launch the interceptors" when the planes went off course?  Did Al Queda DO ANY FUCKING THING BESIDES SAY "HEY, THIS WOULD BE A NICE ATTACK, WE WONDER IF THEY ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO LET US PULL IT OFF?" (again, supposedly once more) Oh no, I'm affraid I agree with you 100% Sylvie_b...by ALL MEANS lets do something about the 4,000 people who got "wiped out"...lets get the people REALLY responsible for it... The only bombs that should have been dropped over 9/11, should have been the gas chamber pellets underneath the chairs of the traitors in high offices that ENABLED and ASSISTED...if not outright PLANNED FOR...the attacks.

you can't just shrug off over 4000 dead citizens! No one is saying that the US had to bomb Iraq because of it, but you can't just do nothing when over 4000 innocents get wiped out in one day for no apparent logical reason.