[Skybird]

To be fair, there were Muhammedans dancing in the streets, yes, but whatever it is worth, their was a good ammount of shock and disbelief and sympathy expressed by people on the street in most if not all Muslim countries as well. Also, worries about what this would mean for realtions with America. In the immediate time after 9/11, people from almost all the world were standing beside America. And most of that was no theatre-playing.

I remember a poor tribe from Africa who still lived traditonally, who even collected amongst the families that did not have much, and handed over some cows or goats to the American ambassador "to ease the pain and suffering of the american people."

Considering that now America has the opinions from almost all the world against it, reminds us of what it has lost since then. I doubt that it would have gone that way if there would have been some more competent and responsible leader like Roosevelt or Eisenhower in the WH. Not only has this government managed to reverse almost all sympathies the american people earned on 9/11, it has also deconstructed many, and most vital, parts of America's traditional claims on values, justice, and humanitarian ideals. the contrast between the perception of America before and during 9/11, and today, couldn't be any greater. it began with Iraq, and worstend even more with Abu Graibh and Guantanamo, the latter of which making bad jokes of everything good that there has been in American justice and legal values.