i was working the first job in my career in logistics for an air freight company, and I remember watching the planes disappear from radar and the skies go quiet over Detroit Metro Airport. Very surreal.

And as mentioned above, it was a huge success for Al Queda, exploding our national debt while eroding personal privacy rights, driving a wedge between Americans on the unwarranted war in Irag, then the war in Afghanistan, and everything since. How do you destroy a larger adversary? From the inside out. They have been wildy successful, probably more than they ever dreamed. They were probably toasting each other with champagne as we executed our Vietnam Part 2 exit from Afghanistan.

You're wrong - he/they don't want us out of the Persian Gulf. We are infidels, a blasphemous perversion on this earth. They want us DEAD, period.
There is no co-existence.
And they willingly strap bombs to themselves and detonate them in crowds just to take a few of us out.

It was a win for radical Islamics regardless of the name on their membership card - Taliban, Al Qaeda, whatever. They all took a victory lap.

It's sad that the cowards purposefully took innocent lives and forever changed everyone else's.