911 is a culmination of well-established historical trends: The contradictions of American policy in the middle east, the growing dependence of western economies on the persian gulf and the>.
911 is an event about which we will know only in retrospect if it implies a break or merely confirms a long known vulnerability of our complex civilization.
911 is an event which, if it were predictable, as one might claim, then it was not a major event but merely induced an impression of a major event.
911 is a critical event that marks the beginning of the new century in the American hemisphere if not the world. This event resulted in a major shift in the foreign policy doctrine of the United States.
911 is an event referred to by a simple date on the calendar because of the uncertainty of what happened there and the powerlessness of language to label the attack.