I'm spending the weekend under a duvet

[NotAllThere]

Could someone tell me when this 9/11 slush-fest is over?

For flip's sake, why can't the Yanks get over it? Sentimentality is one of their least endearing traits.

This was a tremendously important event. 66 *British* people died ffs. That's got to outweigh 2,669 Yanks.

[d000hg]

When are we getting sentimental about the 1million people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan???

Oh sorry I forgot. 1 Western Life is worth 1000x more than the rest of the world.

It's not sentimentality about the lives so much as the attack on the nation. If the towers were nearly empty it would still be 90% as big a deal.

Also towers falling down is more iconic than a decade of genocide - you can't "get hold" of it for a 20s news-spurt.