# Remembering 09/11/2001 -- what are the lessons? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716 "2015-09-11T21:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/41 "2015-09-17T00:35:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > šŸ˜• Heā€™s a WTC CT enthusiast, as demonstrated in multiple threads. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/42 "2015-09-17T00:50:00Z")
Reviewing this thread, it has not turned into a debate. Off to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/43 "2015-09-17T01:35:33Z")
> [@](#): > > What lessons should we take from that event? that when our foreign policy is ā€œthe enemy of my enemy is my friend,ā€ we shouldnā€™t be surprised when our new ā€œfriendsā€ eventually donā€™t like us so much. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/44 "2015-09-17T03:21:03Z")
The lesson is that the U.S. should be involved in the Middle East. ---
**Author:** ![SmallBrownBurro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SmallBrownBurro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmallBrownBurro)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/45 "2015-09-17T04:16:26Z")
Never get into a land war in Asia. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/46 "2015-09-17T10:23:59Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > What lesson did I learn from 9/11? > > I learned that state sponsored terrorism directed at my country will result in of thousands of deaths toward both the country that supported it and the religion that celebrated it. As far as I know, there hasnā€™t been another attack on my country that has been fully sponsored like Afghanistan did with the Taliban. > > The rest of the earth learned real quick that we donā€™t fucking play when it comes to aggression on our soil. We nuked Japan over their stupidity and smashed Afghanistan for theirs. Hell, we even smacked around Iraq just because we felt like it. Was Iraq a bad idea? Maybe, but we showed the rest of the world what we could do if we felt like it. > > I laugh at the next country who thinks they can get away with giving the number one badass on the block a black eye. Good luck with that stupidity lmaoā€¦ The video game version for the stay -indoors teenager. ---
**Author:** ![John\_D\_Adamo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@John\_D\_Adamo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_D_Adamo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/47 "2015-09-18T16:40:31Z")
Lessons. Where to begin. 1. Racial tensions are real and alive in the United States, because too many people lack the intellectual capacity to question FOX News/media after an event like 9/11 and targeted Muslims rather than focusing their rage on the people specifically that committed the crimes. Jesus, it reminded me of the time we rounded up the Japanese and put them in camps at times. **Lesson 1 - Be more critical next time.** 2. This Islamophobia was then harvested by our government to substantiate an illegal war of aggression in Iraq based on dubious and unsubstantiated claims. **Lesson 2- Donā€™t do that.** 3. Instead of waging an illegal war of aggression where our only support was the UK and ā€œdonā€™t forget Poland,ā€ focusing on the just tactical war in Afghanistan where we had near-global support and taking out Bin Laden and his right hand men might have been a wise move. \*\*Lesson 3- Target our defensive resources on one thing at a time. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/48 "2015-09-18T17:08:01Z")
> [@SmallBrownBurro](#): > > Never get into a land war in Asia. Vizzini committed the third classic blunder: Never enter into a contest that your enemy has designed and prepared. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716/49 "2015-09-20T19:31:14Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > What lesson did I learn from 9/11? > > I learned that state sponsored terrorism directed at my country will result in of thousands of deaths toward both the country that supported it **and the religion that celebrated it.** There could be nothing more un-American than making war on a religion. > [@](#): > > Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. ā€“ [Treaty of Tripoli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli), 1796 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-09-11-2001-what-are-the-lessons/730716.md?page=2)