America's Decade of Pain

Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
Plenty of bad things have happened in America in the last decade, but the worst did not come out of the skies or from abroad. Terrorism after 2001 became the external threat we feared the most, but 10 years later, such threats are an asterisk next to the deep and generational damage we have inflicted on ourselves.Americans initially believed the nation's way of life had been upended by the attacks of 9/11, perhaps forever. Every American who is old enough remembers because the horror because it was witnessed in real-time or in endless loops on television. Those images became a shared...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/09/911s_aftermath_the_most_damaging_wounds_came_from_within_111252.html

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