Just to say, the gusher in the Gulf? That's an ideological failure: oh we are so great this could not happen to us. So in a way was 9/11 an ideological failure: oh we are so great this could not happen to us.
Well, it happened.
Maybe we as a nation should start to consider whether or not there exists a body of literature as regards the human experience that contains subject matter pertinent to the issue of "hubris." Also, perhaps we ought to contemplate the lessons embodied therein.
Maybe!