Not exactly, Rob. Whether you, or anyone else chooses to believe it, the jihadists will take the construction of a Mosque in that vicinity as a political win. That's reality; the rest is just attempts to explain that away.

The right answer would have been to rebuild the two towers as quickly as possible. What we see instead is the current state of regulation in the US - it's virtually impossible to get anything done because the regulatory regime throws up too many hurdles, and lets too many people throw sand into the gears. That's true all over; the ground zero site is just the most visible manifestation of that.