Comments on: A new 9/11 Curriculum? http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/09/09/a-new-911-curriculum/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jay Fraz http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/09/09/a-new-911-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-51127 Jay Fraz Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:27:20 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=8987#comment-51127 At some point 9/11 will have to be taught, but I think it is important not to teach the students WHAT to think about the incident, much the same way that we do very little to teach students WHAT to think about the Atom Bombings of Japan and the attack on Pearl harbor. It may seem odd for it to be broken down to such simple wrote knowledge, but this is an area where in which the students should think for themselves and form their own opinions. As for the anti-immigrant folks, I hate to see 9/11 used that way. Of course we need to control immigration and our borders, but that doesn't mean we need massive domestic deployment of the military. At some point 9/11 will have to be taught, but I think it is important not to teach the students WHAT to think about the incident, much the same way that we do very little to teach students WHAT to think about the Atom Bombings of Japan and the attack on Pearl harbor.

It may seem odd for it to be broken down to such simple wrote knowledge, but this is an area where in which the students should think for themselves and form their own opinions.

As for the anti-immigrant folks, I hate to see 9/11 used that way. Of course we need to control immigration and our borders, but that doesn’t mean we need massive domestic deployment of the military.

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/09/09/a-new-911-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-51123 Dan Klarmann Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:58:11 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=8987#comment-51123 So, the 9/11 hijackers would have been stopped if they had been kept out of the U.S? I guess that there are no airports in Toronto or Havana or any of a dozen other foreign cities about as convenient to the targets as were Boston and Chicago. Tighter borders make things much harder for law abiding folks, but only marginally more difficult for hypothetical attackers. The Great Wall of China, and the Maginot line are two well known examples of hideously expensive, ultimately guarded borders that failed within a decade of completion. The real lesson is that a small group of determined individuals with imagination and nothing to lose can destroy an industry and hold a nation captive. Another lesson is that the people who took matters into their own hands can also stop such an attack (Flight 93). One cannot wait for a benevolent "them" to protect us. It's time to stop thinking that closing borders can work. It's time to stop thinking that economics can ever be a local issue. It's time to stop thinking that any particular site is invulnerable. So, the 9/11 hijackers would have been stopped if they had been kept out of the U.S? I guess that there are no airports in Toronto or Havana or any of a dozen other foreign cities about as convenient to the targets as were Boston and Chicago.

Tighter borders make things much harder for law abiding folks, but only marginally more difficult for hypothetical attackers. The Great Wall of China, and the Maginot line are two well known examples of hideously expensive, ultimately guarded borders that failed within a decade of completion.

The real lesson is that a small group of determined individuals with imagination and nothing to lose can destroy an industry and hold a nation captive.

Another lesson is that the people who took matters into their own hands can also stop such an attack (Flight 93). One cannot wait for a benevolent “them” to protect us.

It’s time to stop thinking that closing borders can work. It’s time to stop thinking that economics can ever be a local issue. It’s time to stop thinking that any particular site is invulnerable.

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