re: #297 Political Atheist

I think we have to admit how twisted we all got post 9/11. Before that Bushs big incident was a Chinese plane colliding with a US recon plane that barely made it to the nearest airfield-A Chinese one.

By today’s far less threatened mindset the Iraq war looks ludicrous, almost impossible in hindsight. But today’s mindset is a far cry from 9/12. We were literally shocked and panicked. A bad place for policy to form.

9/11 was shocking, but I can’t say I was panicked. Granted, I live on the west coast and it was probably much scarier for those in the NY/DC area, but I can’t imagine still being panicked 2 years later. Fearful, maybe, but not panicked. And that fear was cultivated by the neo-cons. Something I find hard to forgive.