Everyone keeps comparing this to Pearl Harbor, and I understand that: A relatively unprovoked attack, surprise, devastation.

But I start thinking about the Cuban Missile Crisis and though the events are very different, the sense of defenselessness is similar.

Ammy brought up a good point: that if the death-toll is near 50,000 (unlikely, but possible, depending on what was going on when the towers collapsed, we'll see) then the casualties exceed those of the entire Vietnam conflict. All in a couple hours, and all civilians.

Also for comparison (not political comparison, but for scale) Hiroshima and Nagasaki are each estimated to have killed between 60,000 and 90,000 people.

As I said before: fuck fuck fuck fuck.