My condolences to all the Americans out there, be they at home or abroad.
I'm sorry, Frank-san, but I don't agree with you. This was not the work of rabid animals. This was the work of sane, thinking people. Crazy, very crazy, yes, but they knew what they were doing. The planes didn't circle as if they were trying to make some decision. They just rammed straight into the tower as if there was no other option, as if crashing planes into buildings was just some average job you did.
For those who don't know, (and yes, there are some friends of mine who don't know, amazingly) on the 11/9/2001, early in the morning during the rush hour period, a commercial plane was driven straight into the side of one of the World Trade Twin Towers in New York. Minutes later, another passenger plane was driven in the same manner into the other tower. Then, further away in Washington D.C, a plane crashed into the helicopter landing pad next to the Pentagon and rammed all the way in. A 4th plane crashed in Pennsylvania, on its way to Camp David, but never got there.
Words can't describe how horrible those images was.
Because, no matter how I think of those images, I just see calm calculated efforts to terrorise other people, calm calculated efforts to kill, mass murder, a whole load of innocent people on those planes and in those buildings. I have nothing to say about the Pentagon attack; it was a miliatary building, and in wars, miliatary buildings are always attacked, you can't avoid it. But the worse thing was these people purposely crash planes with civilian passengers, into a 110-storey civilian building, and pinpoint the crash site so exactly that those buildings, and the No.7 building next to it collapse. And there are still people trapped in there.
It's easy to say, "They have reduced themselves to animals." but that's not true. They are very very human.
I know it may seem like blasphemy to say this, but humans have shown this ability to sacrifice themselves wholly to a cause all throughout history, as long as they think it is justified. In wars, how many times have the soldiers known they were going to die, and yet killed their fellow humans just for advancing a cause they believed in? How those WW2 soldiers willingly crashed themselves into ships so that for one person sacrificed, they could kill God knows how many? How they would fight on the land, fight on the seas, fight in the air, but will never give in?
I'm sorry to say this, but this is very much part of human nature. Hell, there are even people CELEBRATING this tragic incident out there.
And sadly to say, the Americans have to retaliate. Even though scholars years later may say that they shouldn't have made such and such a decision or that they were simply looking for a scapegoat, I am going to say here: You weren't there, you don't understand, you didn't see, so shut up.
Maybe it was Osama bin Laden. Or maybe he was framed. Or maybe all the militants or terrorists just decided they were going to work together and have a field day.
Whatever it is, unfortunately in this situation, fire must be fought with fire, evil with evil, for they have proved themselves to be beyond forgiveness. Even though we may recoil at what happened later, but sometimes....things end up being sacrificed even though they shouldn't be. And the values that we hold dear must be sacrified in the name of the greater values that we all believe in, even though that value may be stained with the blood of innocents.
The Americans may think this way, and you know what? Whatever terrorists did this, they have also thought in the exact same way that the Americans are thinking.
Fire fought with fire, evil with evil, for they are beyond forgiveness, and though we may kill innocents, it is all for the greater values we believe in that we sacrifice our sanctity.
The ends, never ever ever justify the means.
Whatever happens in the future, and for what has happened, may God forgive us all.

"This day's black fate on more days doth depend, this but begins the woe others must end."