21-08-2013, 04:02 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Continuing this thought experiment: Assume the entire 9/11 event really was just 19 terrorists with box cutters. The entire USG response was one of embarrassment and covering up blundering on the part of all major aspects of the government tasked with protecting the country. Would this be a deep political event?
I'll go along with your assumption -- even though doing so gives me a violent case of the heebie-jeebies.
In this example, what you call "blundering" no doubt would rise (sink?) to the level of criminal malfeasance. Thus the act of repressing the record of said malfeasance would constitute a deep political act.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene