9/11 and Unity
There isn’t too much thought or coherent reasoning behind this article, but it does raise an interesting point: we were much more unified immediately after 9/11. It’s easy to blame Bush or the Democrats Iraq or American forgetfulness or the media or some combination, and to say as this guy does that because of Iraq, “America’s fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.”
I don’t think our national “fabric” is nearly that strained, but I also think that the post-9/11 unity was only illusory, and our divides run deeper Iraq . It only lasted as long as we could avoid talking about what to actually do. Once we have to take some action, all the political divides which had been brewing since Vietnam came back to the surface. Everybody looked at the inkblot and saw what they wanted to. What’s remarkable is less that 9/11’s unity wore off so fast but that it made a difference in the first place.
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