There's this quote from the late 1800s -- I think it was attributed to Mark Twain...? -- it goes something like,

"More outrage and worry is spent on damage to brick and mortar than you will ever see over harm to blood and bone."

I've no doubt butchered it. Sorry, couldn't find the proper verbiage on the search engines :shrug-outta-hecks:

Out there in Counter-Factual Alternate History Land is a world where Bin Laden sent all the plains at the pentagon. I wonder what the response of Americans would have been? I kinda think it would have played out more like he hoped -- with more public scrutiny into the United State's involvement in the middle east. "Why has this happened?" but as a genuine question, rather than the rhetorical outlet of anger we got. Getting both towers was a theatrical flourish, it seared the event into the public's mind... but it also fixed it, as an obvious attack against them. If it had only been the pentagon? Certainly not as showy, but also harder to frame as a "direct offensive".