I guess we're talking past each other, but 9/11 is a singularly bad example. It was an attack, on the US soil, by a foreign force. It was the one thing that m

I guess we're talking past each other, but 9/11 is a singularly bad example. It was an attack, on the US soil, by a foreign force. It was the one thing that made Americans united against "the enemy", whether real or perceived, and of course it was co-opted by American politicians to fuel nationalism. If some foreign terrorist blows up a building in Beijing, do you think China would want other nations to stop talking about it?