The title of this piece is a symptom of mass delusion. The US has never been "innocent". Since the country was founded by drenching the land with the blood of hundreds of thousands, initially friendly, Native Americans we have been "guilty".
Aanyone that thinks Aamerica is innocent is a victim of the worst of our propagandistic education system.
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A less innocent US moves on
On the anniversary of 9/11, many are trying to live uninterrupted lives amid doubts over US safety.
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – Two years ago a bolt of terrorism lifted the United States off its underpinnings and dropped it facing a new direction.
It's true that today most Americans don't feel personally endangered in the aftermath of Sept. 11. A relative few have stockpiled duct tape and plastic sheeting. Remembrances of the worst attacks ever on the continental US are fewer and more muted than last year. Time has rewritten shock and grief into elegy.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0911/p01s01-ussc.html