Where Rome fell, New York endures
They wanted, as all humans do, to understand how and why such a devastating event could have happened.
Some have argued that 9/11 marked a new era in history, while others, such as Richard Haass, who writes today as part of the Irish Examiner’s coverage of the tenth anniversary, have argued that it was just an event. But we are a species looks for patterns, so we looked to history for parallels.
