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"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message
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This is not the same world that it was before 9-11.


Actually, it is. We are just trying very hard to pretend it is not.

There was terrorism before 9/11. There were nuclear bombs, ground wars,
air wars, genocide, many *hundreds* of thousands of people killed on side
or another. There were oppressive dictators and benevolent democracies.
There were the nourished, the privileged, and the starving. There were
civil airliners shot down. There were the "just" wars, and there were the
imperial oppressions.

There were air blitzes on cities and countryside, with thousands dying.

What is so different now?

All of the above is true, but 9-11 changed everything anyway.

The same things are still going on; it's just that enough people were
temporarily paying attention after 9-11 that the politicians had to take
notice.
I have no doubt that given enough time without another hit.....based on past
experience......we will probably as a nation go right back into the same
denial and ignore mode we were in before 9-11.
Dudley Henriques