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Eighteen years ago today was a perfectly normal day.
Then tomorrow came and the world, which seemed vast, became small enough that dangers distant were suddenly at hand. Not just the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Then tomorrow came and the world, which seemed vast, became small enough that dangers distant were suddenly at hand. Not just the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Within weeks, envelopes laced with a white powder would show up at federal buildings in the District of Columbia.
In the madness that ensued, we responded to the violence in two ways that time has revealed to have been grave errors of judgment.
In the madness that ensued, we responded to the violence in two ways that time has revealed to have been grave errors of judgment.
First, we concluded that boots nailed to foreign soil answered terrorism, beginning a war that cannot end.
Second, we concluded that our sense of security was more important than our liberty, enacting a gross intrusion on civil liberties under the perversely false name of the Patriot Act.
Isn't it time that we realized that our rushed judgment led us too far afield? Isn't it time that we awake to the truth that we cannot justify treasure spent and blood spilled with more treasure spent and more blood spilled?
