http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

This article is about how America need to move on past the horrors and tragedy of September 11, 2001. The author is being very respectful of the deceased, but is telling politician to quit using 9/11 as a ploy to keep fear and terrorism on the front burner just to get elected. The writer is saying that the gloom and doom atmosphere has ran its course and the USA need to move on pass that awful day. I feel the author is making a very good point. Politicians should not score points over this hostile act. We need to learn from the mistakes we made that let 9/11 happen and for those that lived beyond that day need to make America a vibrant society again. I feel that our borders should be crossed at checkpoints and that if we erect walls around our borders that we would become a closet society. And we fought against such acts against our enemies in the past. Where as we were once a thriving open society respecting human rights, we are using 9/11 to crush those same principles. We (American) used to be able to take a punch and get up and continue fighting, but on 9/11 we took a punch, fell down and got up staggering and weak. What we need to do is get back in shape and recapture our glory and respect.