Five years later

I just read Christopher Hitchens' 9/11 piece "Never Again - America's New Mantra" in the "Sydney Morning Herald". I was hoping the author of "The Trial Of Henry Kissinger" - a book that'll pry your eyes upon with matchsticks about HK and his involvement in dodgy US foreign policy - could put things in perspective for me five years on. Twice through the article and I was forced to conclude Hitchens may be as confused as the rest of us shlubs. Sure, he gives a good summary of the blindness, the blunders and how American attitudes have changed. But it seems even his brilliant political mind can't satisfactorily explain the madness of that day.