Nerve Endings Firing Away

"(In point of fact, the best we have been able to do with the actual site, after almost a decade, is to create a huge, noisy, and dirty pit with almost no visible architectural progress. Perhaps resentment at the relative speed of the proposed Cordoba House is a subconscious by-product of embarrassment at this local and national disgrace.)"

My opinion on the mosque or cultural Islamic Center or whatever it is near Ground Zero should be plainly obvious to the readers of this blog so I'll not waste my breath. I was however waiting to see what Hitchens had to say about the whole matter and he doesn't disappoint. But the paragraph that I quote above and that he puts in parentheses is something that has baffled me too. Why is America, the country that can get things done and build stuff not been able to build something on Ground Zero for the past ten years?

[Link to The Need to Build Something Quick]