Colin McEnroe Show: America's Post-9/11 Neurosis
Americans are still processing the horror of 9/11, but are we doing it right?
Published: Jul 26, 2010
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Colin McEnroe Show: America's Post-9/11 Neurosis
Today, the Colin McEnroe Show examines the possibly crazy theory that the new document dump about Afghanistan, the flap over the MDC reservoir in West Hartford, the battle over the Cordoba House "mosque" near Ground Zero and the Washington Post's "Top Secret America" project last week are all connected to our untreated post-9/11 neurosis.
Last week the Washington Post unveiled a three-part series that should have shocked the nation. It laid out a sprawling and incoherent post 9/11 intelligence network, so absurdly reticulated that no one seemed capable of using its output.
Amost 1,300 government agencies and 2,000 private companies. Thirty-three new top secret building complexes. A shocking 1.7 billion emails and phone calls intercepted and stored every day. A budget of 75 billion dollars. About 850,000 with top secret security clearances. Who have we turned into?
Today, we're digesting a new document dump telling us the war if Afghanistan is not going well.
And how has 9/11 affected our attitudes? Even on a casual level?
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E-mail from Derek
I am almost 30 and I grew up listening to my Mother tell, again and again, with disdain the stories of her childhood in the Cold War having to "duck and cover" under her desk in school in preparation for a nuclear attack. As she grew up and saw videos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki she realized that ducking under a desk would never in a million years protect anyone from nuclear war. The point, it seems, was to give the public the illusion that "something was being done." Perhaps that was the point of the gates at the Rez. To give the illusion that in our post-9/11 world "something is being done."
I also notice a lot of Russians at the Rez.
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