Does anyone else feel like I do that we make too much of 9/11?

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IMHO we should have gone after what was left of the perpetrators and not gone to war in Afghanistan. We didn't need the Patriot Act, the Iraq war and the war on terror. I feel these are all bogus efforts re: PNAC. It is terrible that 3000 people died but our reaction is just as fucked up.
9/11 was not another Pearl Harbor but we have made it so. No country attacked us. A bunch of individual Saudis and others attacked us. I'm not so sure that Osama had anything to do with it.

I feel bad that we will now talk about 9/11 in the same terms that we talk about Pearl Harbor yet there is no comparison. History is being edited and rewritten as we speak.

I don't have any other way of putting it but to say I don't feel it was such a big deal. Other than the numbers killed, it should not be the turing point in our country's history. It is to me what the Reichstag was to Germany in the 1930's. Just a means for fascism to take over this country.