Visit any right wing propaganda outlet such as Fox News and listen to "analysts" such as Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity and one message reverberates repeatedly:  We are in Aghanistan to help its people overcome the scourge of terrorism and only those who side with terrorists are opposed to that mission.

One important element to the post 9/11 attack response that an alert few noticed and discussed was that the government did not seek to investigate how the tragedies occurred, treating them instead as old news and expressing a desire to move on from there.  

The problem is that such a response is illogical and that the first thing one must do following any tragedy is to investigate, learn, and carry out policies benefiting from such investigation.

When George W. Bush stood side by side with New York City police and fire department personnel at Ground Zero he stated that he felt their outrage over the attacks and received a strong ovation when he promised to seek out the perpetrators and deliver fitting punishment in the names of the victims of 9/11.