According to the plans announced with fanfare seven years ago, Silverstein and I should have been craning our necks at five skyscrapers, including America’s tallest tower. We should have been jostled by commuters surging in and out of a spectacular, $2,000,000,000 train station. And, all around us, there should have been a gentle, cascading sound from the 9/11 memorial, two waterfalls laid out in the footprints of the Twin Towers, a whispering reminder of 2,752 people murdered here.

I’m posting this out of an overwhelming frustration. What’s wrong and what’s right? Honestly, I feel, this is not only a “national disgrace” but a disgrace on the entire free world. At least the US is doing well at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, right?