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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I was referring to the former. The MSM was fully in the camp of surprise. "How could this happen to America?" When if you haven't had your head in the sand the correct response would have been "damn it took this long?"

Also the ability to not correlating the ability to not condone an event like 9/11 but understand and sympathize why it happened.