Did 9/11 Change Us? Mike Rappaport

NRO has a symposium on the question.  Here are my two favorite parts.   First, Mark Steyn writes:

In the end, very little changed. The so-called 9/11 Democrats arealmost as invisible a presence as the moderate Muslim, and, insofaras one can tell, are most likely outnumbered by members of theScowcroftian unrealpolitik Right still wedded to stability uber alles.In theory, if you d wanted to construct an enemy least likely to appealto the progressive Left, wife-beating gay-bashing theocrats wouldsurely be it. But Islamism turned out to be the ne plus ultraof multiculti diversity-celebration for what more demonstrates theboundlessness of one s tolerance than by tolerating the intolerant.The Europeans fetishization of the Palestinians whereby the moredepraved the suicide bombers are the more brutalized they must havebeen by the Israelis has, in effect, been globalized.

And James Lileks writes:

If 9/11 had really changed us, there d be a 150-story building on thesite of the World Trade Center today. It would have a classicalmemorial in the plaza with allegorical figures representing Sorrow andResolve, and a fountain watched over by stern stone eagles. Insteadthere s a pit, and arguments over the usual muted dolorous abstractionapproved by the National Association of Grief Counselors. The EmpireState Building took 18 months to build. During the Depression. We coulddo that again, but we don t. And we don t seem interested in asking why.

Don’t you just love the image created by the italicized line.  All I can say is, lets build it now!