After 9/11 Fear Destroys What Bin Laden Could Not

[pegkerr]

Here is an op-ed by Robert Steinbeck in the Miami Herald that deserves a wide audience.

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.

If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it -- I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat -- and expect America to be pleased by this -- I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

Read the entire op-ed here.

Comments

[warrior-poetess.livejournal.com]

an excellent but sad article

we're going the same way in Australia too

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

This reminds all too much of the essay I wrote after 9/11, in which I said that if we did X, Y, and Z, the terrorists would have won. Bush and large portions of the American public have pretty much accomplished X, Y, and Z.