In Retrospect

Five years.

Where have the losses of 9-11 taken us? What have we learned? What have we gained? What have we lost really?

And most importantly, have we healed from the pain that the events of this tragic day has wrought into our souls?

Every step forward towards healing we take several steps backward with another attack reverberating from another city - Paris, Spain, India, London, many others. Innocents are now the targets. And the enemy is varied - in faces and their ideology, their purpose.

Over the weekend, US media has played events of 9-11 over and over again. Is the purpose to sear our souls with that old stinging pain again? Doesn't it instead arouse anger and questions about why five years later we are nowhere, if not in worse situation?

Five years. After the memorials are erected, numerous ceremonies and much rhetoric we still have a huge empty hole in downtown Manhattan and questions that remain unanswered.