After the 9/11 attacks, the hysteria for retaliation led the American people into the abyss of unending war, lost of civil liberties, moral debacle, monstrous debt and economic chaos. Bin Laden couldn’t dream of a biggest success.
I’m not arguing here with the “truth” about who actually was the mastermind behind the attacks. I’m answering to the “common sense” response to them exposed by most of the editorial cartoons published by then. It was the first time I saw a collection of my American colleagues’ works (I was new to the Internet) and I was horrified: a lot of ferocious bald eagles vowing retaliation while sharpening their claws. Freedom of opinion comes with responsibilities and, in this regard, the shallow reaction of many cartoonists at that time gives them a share in the present state of the world.
By way of balance I’d like to recommend this piece by Noam Chomsky. An idea in the text is of prime importance:
The 2001 September attack was the closing end of a circle opened with another 9/11: that of the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile, orchestrated and funded by the Nixon/Kissinger team, which started a string of military dictatorships in Latin America aimed to put an end to the nationalist social reforms in the region and to impose a neoliberal economy regime, open to financial (speculative) investing.
Which in turn lead to indebted States, unable to help the weak citizens but limited to function as a repressive police force against those same citizens’ predictable unrest and crime rate increase. The perfect “Social Darwinism” nightmare hovering over the United States right now.
GLORIA MUNDI 
letitbeman
September 11, 2011
I like the artwork,,, and the ‘common sense’ as depicted by your article.
Bob Row
September 11, 2011
Glad to know you liked. Thank you.
Carl Buell
September 11, 2011
Great drawing Roberto! What a shame that 911 is turning into “the day Osama won”. Bin Laden didn’t expect the towers to actually collapse, and he certainly would never have guessed that the entire country would begin to deconstruct it’s own liberties.
Bob Row
September 11, 2011
Thank you, my friend. Looking back to this ten years makes you to reflect about how hard is to built a great nation and how easy is to destroy it. Oh, that fatal voting in Florida!