Some think rebuilding the 110-story towers would invite more terrorist attacks, but others proposedoing just that -- erecting another set of highrises just like those that now lay in dust and rubble.
Such a modest, practical reform may lack Mr. Obama's preferred political grandeur, but the other reason he didn't propose it is that the government has already been doing it for a half-century.
And the meanings he gives to his words show that he has no real intention of doing anything to thwart evil, any more than he had any concrete actions to propose to punish North Korea.