re: #270 wrenchwench

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.