Barack Obama compares oil spill to 9/11

[dtewi]

richardhutnik said:

dtewi said:

I don't know why he'd use the change 9/11 had as the analogy...

9/11 got compared to Pearl Harbor.  Is that a good analogy?  One act was a declaration of war by a sovereign nation, while the other was an act done by a bunch of punk individuals in a network.  What is normally seen as a criminal act was turned into an act of war, and launched America on a path of foreign policy that has hinder it, costing over 1 trillion in dollars and costing an lot in credibility.

So, ask me which is worse here.  Do you want to say, "but 9/11 did impact foreign policy the way Pearl Harbor did"?  Fine, then you can say the oil spill impacted economic and environmental foreign policy in a similar scope.

Um, I never said 9/11 wasn't a good analogy, just that he should know there'd be hideous backlash for that.