NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The time has come for the future of Ground Zero to be decided at a national summit. The current stand-off has demonstrated that, try as they may, state and local officials are ill-equipped to give us the World Trade Center our city and country deserve. It makes no sense to limit the revival of such a signature site to what New York and New Jersey can afford. There is no reason why those two states should bear the entire country's burden -- or be allowed to undermine our collective recovery. The target on September 11, 2001, wasn't New York or Washington. Osama bin Laden gloated in October, 2001: "The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke." It was the very idea of America that was attacked, which makes our paralysis at Ground Zero a national disgrace and our true resurgence an imperative. Most Americans have always wanted to see the Twin Towers back where they belong. The Towers were uniquely exuberant -- just like the country that produced them. They were a reflection of who we are. That is why they became such celebrated icons -- they actually stood for something. Their rebirth now would rebuild our confidence as nothing else could.
