911 was unprecedented in terrorist attacks, not just on the scale and location, but the use of a plane full of innocents to hit a ground target. The aim of raising tensions and hatreds did not materialse thankfully, the only ones espousing hatreds hated Moslems anyway. In meory of the victims, many who were Irish or of Irish extraction. What did it achieve, bar hatred And indeed if that was its aim It did not build the hatred they thought We don't hate all Moslems the same Some fools do, but not us all So it failed, the bombers dream We know the majority are just like us And the terrorists from the extreme. Some say it was in revenge for a plane crash That came down over Iran Ignored by the west the victims I read of the children dead, the story of each man How their hearts were broken and anger Their families and nations siezed And revenge was vowed to come in time And that their anger had not eased. And each year it will come around As we seek not to forget In the names of the victims two wars were launched And the fighting is not over yet. Two wrongs they do not make a right And no more right does create mistakes three And if this is to be the continuing folly of man No hope for mankind do I see. The reasons put forward for 9/11 are many and varied, from the nutty conspiracy theories, to Michael Fisks theory on the revenge for the Iran plane crashes during the 1980's. The one lesson that can be drawn from 911 is that two wrongs do not make a right, in fact they drive populations farther apart than ever. Not forgetting the victims of the two unjust wars (in my opinion) launched in revenge by the USA, and in the hope a third unjust war is not launched against Iran.