Failure is a step in reaching success.

A failure is not exactly an OOPSortunity because a failure in many instances is part of the process.  This video is a reminder of this. It's a promotion for Honda, but the message is worthwhile.

We can still win the battle of 9-11

On 9-11-2001 a group of fanatics shocked the world with an audacious and murderous crime. They did this to make a statement about their religion.  As the world responded to them by hunting them down and going to war with them, they have been winning.  They have managed to distort the way the world sees Islam. When we hate all of a people because of the doings of a small group of terrorists, the terrorists win.

The site of the crime is known as Ground Zero.  For many it is hallowed because of the murder of so many people at the site.

There is no way of turning back to the time before 9-11, but we can still decide what to take away from this.

The clamor and fighting over the plans to build Park51, the Islamic Center downtown, has been hijacked by people who agree with the criminal terrorist and want Islam to be at war with America and our values. These hijackers are saying that the Mosque will be a monument to the criminals.  The truth is that it will be a way for making even more Muslims 21st century Americans.
The oopsortunity is to turn the seeming victory of the fanatics into a victory for the modernizing and Americanizing of Muslims.

Here's the video of Michael Moore that got me thinking this.