9iron,
I think that what you don’t understand, is that the 9/11 attackers target wasn’t the twin towers, or the Pentagon, or any particular building.

It was America as a nation… our beliefs, our freedoms, etc. etc. all of which are anathema to Al Qaeda and similar violent subsets of Islam.

That’s why all of this hateful bile being spewed by Americans against the Cordoba House is a victory for them. It’s a clear indication that they acheived (at least in part) their wider goal of damaging our religious freedoms and tolerance. It shows them they damaged what we are, which was their goal from the outset.