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Nine-Eleven Re-visited?

  • 05-09-2010 11:39AM
    #1
    CUCINA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭


    Anyone see the Nne-Eleven two-hour documentary last night on Channel Four? Have to admit I got a kind of renewed sense of shock as the video clips (mostly taken by private video camera users) showed events as they unfolded, with things progressing from "was it an accident?" to the realisation that it was a truly evil terrorist attack, through to the collapse of both towers...
    In a sense, you could say that Ireland is now having its own economic Nine-Eleven; the initial shock of the bank-guarantee scheme, through to the massive losses at Anglo, and now the appalling reality sinking in that we are all going to suffer harder times for many years to come as our economy collapses.
    New York has seemingly come out stronger after the event, so maybe there is hope for us!


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  • #2
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    No offence, but the comparison I find ridiculous..

    9/11 was a terrorist attack inflicted on the US by foreign fundamentalists. The people of America united to fight the common enemy, similar to what happened after Pearl Harbour.

    Our banking crisis was brought on by incompetence of upper public sector employees (dept of Finance, Regulator, etc ) and a small group of private bankers who were friends of FF, none of whom have been brought to justice... The people of Ireland are only united in pursuing these people and getting some accountability (though there is no appetite for doing this among the political classes). I dont think anybody is interested in uniting to help the Government. These people are traitors.


  • #3
    CUCINA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭CUCINA


    ...And no offence taken!

    I am not claiming (as you seem to be suggesting) that both events are similar in origin and nature; of course they are not.

    In making the comparison, the first words I used were "in a sense", meaning that I was merely drawing a parallel between the two scenarios, to do with how a society or a population re-acts to a shock to the system. This is regardless of the nature of that shock.

    So the similarity I was getting at relates to the process involved in gradually taking on board the gravity of the situation as subsequent events unfold.

    That is all!


  • #4
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    CUCINA wrote: »
    In a sense, you could say that Ireland is now having its own economic Nine-Eleven

    LOL


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