Nine Eleven

"It was nearly 10 years ago, that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history."
Barack Obama - May 1, 2011

Perhaps one should give President Obama the benefit of the doubt and just assume that his speech was badly written. Perhaps when he said "in our history" he actually mean't "in living memory", because surely the worst attack on the people of America was the mass extermination of indigenous peoples during the period of America's colonisation.