I read on the 'Life/Chat' board another thread about the attacks and someone ("Eclipse", I think) said, I quote, "I don't think you should compare this to what happened 60 years ago. Except for the acts of blind violence, I can't see any parallells at all here."
Hello? Didn't US get engaged in the WW2 because of similar events in Pearl Harbor, where all the Japanese destroyed was a few cruisers? Today the centre of business, a part of the defense headquarters destroyed, a few car bombs, angered citizens, the President vowing for revenge.. to me it seems like we have all the necessary ingredients for a fruitful "the third big war".
I'm not quite sure we've seen all the terrorist acts there are to this.