Work takes me past the site of the World Trade Towers once or twice a month. More than nine years after the towers were destroyed, the "Freedom Tower" is just a bit of superstructure. In contrast, World War II was completed less than four years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Living in Manhattan, I'm accustomed to seeing skyscrapers take shape in a year or two. I don't know why the work on the World Trade site is going so slowly, but the snail's pace suggests a possible resolution of another construction issue in the same neighborhood.
Let's give a complete go-ahead to the so-called Ground Zero Mosque on the condition that the design and construction must be run by the same people in charge of building the Freedom Tower. Any Christians or Jews whose Messiah doesn't arrive before that project is completed will have nothing to complain about.
Heck, while we're at it, let's waive sanctions against Iran so long as the very same crew is put in charge of developing that nation's nuclear facilities.
American may no longer be able to solve problems, but, as the war in Afghanistan threatens to overtake the television series M*A*S*H for the runner-up spot behind the Hundred Years War, we sure do know how to slow things down.