Eight years ago a group of murderers flew planes into buildings killings thousands of people. For the past eight years, we've asked ourselves why. Perhaps the leader of the murderers was protesting America's control over the Muslim world and an attempt to expose America for its role in the region. If that's the case, then the murderers were right. The U.S. now occupies two Muslim countries and have been responsible for degrading and torturing Muslims.

In the past eight years, we've accepted the line that the world has changed because of that event. We rallied around the flag in the direct aftermath and many of us continue to call for war in the name of national security. We forget that people from dozens of countries were victims that day. If you mention that fact, you are dismissed as radical and unpatriotic. But, maybe that's exactly what those murderers were hoping for. They wanted the attack to be about America when it should have been about the human family coming together against hatred and violence.