Americans in Denial about 9/11

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted September 14, 2006.

Five years after 9/11, the country still hasn't asked what motives the terrorists may have had in their attacks.

So, why did they hate us after all?

We sure blew off that question nicely. As with everything else in this country, our response to 9/11 was a heroic compendium of idiocy, cowardice, callow flag-waving, weepy sentimentality (coupled with an apparently bottomless capacity for self-pity), sloth, laziness, and partisan ignorance.