What reallly happened after 9-11 when you get right down to it.

[ourbluenation]

"All sorts of strange types emerged from under their rocks to exploit September 11 - neoconservatives longing for a war that would restore "American greatness" through militarism, legal anarchists who started rewriting the constitution, evangelicals who sensed the opportunity to launch a counter-revolution against all the cultural changes of the last four decades. None of these groups represented more than a fraction of Americans, but, together, they found the ear of a transformed president and of his political advisers, who knew how to exploit them in return. The level of American political debate sank to a new low and is now fixed on symbols - "values," "strength," "family," "security," "life," "freedom" - that bear little relation to contemporary American reality or the world situation. The '90s were a period of political maturation in United States, but, in the face of trauma, the nation has regressed to an infantile state."

Mark Lilla
The New Republic

[razors edge]

1. sound about right.

[Bucky]

2. Yeh, someone thank the New Republic for supporting the Iraq war

and, um, stealing the national security dumbfuck mantle from the Bush administration.

[ourbluenation]

3. I know - I'll never understand that. I almost hesitated to post this but

it was about 9-11, not Iraq, so I gave him a pass.