Deroy Murdock: Ground Zero of National Paralysis - Rebuild the Towers, privately.

National Review Online ^ | July 04, 2008 | Deroy Murdock

[goldstategop]

If the libs had it their way, America would never be built. What they've succeeded in doing at Ground Zero is a sign of what they'd like to see happen all over the country.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[garbanzo]

Overall construction costs and schedules cannot be determined due to 15 pending “essential decisions.”

I'm guessing "essential decisions" is a codeword for "bribes".

[Crazieman]

Rebuild the towers. Would be a better memorial than a $@#ing hole in the ground.

[goldstategop]

Its been almost a decade and there's still a empty space where there should be new buildings. National embarrassment, indeed!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Drew68]

Rebuild the towers. Would be a better memorial than a $@#ing hole in the ground.

Better a $@#ing hole in the ground that many of the gawdawful ideas that have been proposed. Freedom Tower? WTF?

Twin Towers II is the best idea I've seen by far. Build it now! Restore NYC's skyline.

[traviskicks]

A great article.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Put Donald Trump in charge and it would get done. House the UN in the thing too. Make the new towers bigger, stronger, and able to withstand an airplane crash. We must show the world Americans are not wimps.

[KingSnorky]

I wholeheartedly agree. Rebuild the twin towers but make them one story higher.

[supercat]

Such blueprints already exist. Twin Towers II — proposed by structural designer Kenneth Gardner and the late Herbert Belton, an original WTC architect — mirrors the sorely missed high rises.

I don't like the way the bottom columns "fork" into nothing. The forking of the old columns had a structural purpose; the new way just looks silly, IMHO. Also, I'm curious whether the new exterior walls would be as amazingly strong as the old ones were. While it's true the old walls did collapse eventually, they held up far better than would a more conventional design.

[Crazieman]

Twin Towers Alliance petition.

Technically not affiliated with WTC2011, but they're pushing for that design. I signed years ago.

[Diogenesis]

We must show the world Americans are not wimps.

Our leaders grovel, on their knees, to the Enemy,ever eager to sell out America.

[wendy1946]

There is an opening in the world for somebody to become the Andrew Carnegy of carbon fibre. We should be making buildings and bridges out of that stuff and not just arrows and tennis racquets.

[The Worthless Miracle]

That’s what I think. Rebuild them exactly as they were. No “diversity” oriented memorials, just rebuild it.

[Norman Bates]

I have always advocated rebuilding the same towers albeit with improved structural and security designs.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Donald Trump was right ( even though I don't agree with everything he says ) about rebuilding the Twin Towers AS THEY WERE.
I would go farther than just building it one story higher than the originals, build them as high as the numerals 9 + 11.. 20 stories higher than the originals.... they were 110 stories high ? build them 110 + 9 + 11 = 130 to honor the victims that day.

[Rumplemeyer]

Bribes are not the problem...allowing every two bit hack in NYC to put their fingerprints on it and accommodating all the single issue pressure groups...no to mention the lack of backbone from Governor's Patacki and Spitzer in NY, and Governor's “Fudge Pants” and “Crash” in NJ

[Quix]

PART of me wonders if all the fallderall is a function of some of the big power brokers knowing that NYC is going to be nuked in the not too distant future.

[traviskicks]

Conversely, 19 bureaucracies — from Manhattan to Albany to Trenton to Washington — wrestle him at Ground Zero.

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[kbennkc]

Rebuild the twin towers but make them one story higher.

I was surprised there was ever a proposal do do otherwise .