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Bush's Response to 9/11 Was Deadlier Than the Attacks Themselves

By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted October 24, 2007.


A look at how and why the U.S. gravely failed in its response to 9/11.
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Introduction note by Tom Dispatch editor Tom Engelhardt.

They came in as unreformed Cold Warriors, only lacking a cold war -- and looking for an enemy: a Russia to roll back even further; rogue states like Saddam's rickety dictatorship to smash. They were still in the old fight, eager to make sure that the "Evil Empire," already long down for the count, would remain prostrate forever; eager to ensure that any new evil empire like, say, China's would never be able to stand tall enough to be a challenge. They saw opportunities to move into areas previously beyond the reach of American imperial power like the former SSRs of the Soviet Union in Central Asia, which just happened to be sitting on potentially fabulous undeveloped energy fields; or farther into the even more fabulously energy-rich Middle East, where Saddam's Iraq, planted atop the planet's third largest reserves of petroleum, seemed so ready for a fall -- with other states in the region visibly not far behind.

It looked like it would be a coming-out party for one -- the debutante ball of the season. It would be, in fact, like the Cold War without the Soviet Union. What a blast! And they could still put their energies into their fabulously expensive, ever-misfiring anti-missile system, a subject they regularly focused on from January 2000 until September 10, 2001.

They were Cold Warriors in search of an enemy -- just not the one they got. When the Clintonistas, on their way out of the White House, warned them about al Qaeda, they paid next to no attention. Non-state actors were for wusses. When the CIA carefully presented the President with a one-page, knock-your-socks-off warning on August 6, 2001 that had the screaming headline, "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S.," they ignored it. Bush and his top officials were, as it happened, strangely adrift until September 11, 2001; then, they were panicked and terrified -- until they realized that their moment had come to hijack the plane of state; so they clambered aboard, and like the Cold Warriors they were, went after Saddam.

Chalmers Johnson was himself once a Cold Warrior. Unlike the top officials of the Bush administration, however, he retained a remarkably flexible mind. He also had a striking ability to see the world as it actually was -- and a prescient vision of what was to come. He wrote the near-prophetic and now-classic book, Blowback, published well before the attacks of 9/11, and then followed it up with an anatomy of the U.S. military's empire of bases, The Sorrows of Empire, and finally, to end his Blowback Trilogy, a vivid recipe for American catastrophe, Nemesis: The Fall of the American Republic. All three are simply indispensable volumes in any reasonable post-9/11 library. Here is his latest consideration of that disastrous moment and its consequences as part of a series of book reviews he is periodically writing for Tomdispatch.

A Guide for the Perplexed: Intellectual Fallacies of the War on Terror

By Chalmers Johnson

This essay is a review of The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror by Stephen Holmes (Cambridge University Press, 367 pp., $30).]

There are many books entitled "A Guide for the Perplexed," including Moses Maimonides' 12th century treatise on Jewish law and E. F. Schumacher's 1977 book on how to think about science. Book titles cannot be copyrighted. A Guide for the Perplexed might therefore be a better title for Stephen Holmes' new book than the one he chose, The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror. In his perhaps overly clever conception, the matador is the terrorist leadership of al Qaeda, taunting a maddened United States into an ultimately fatal reaction. But do not let the title stop you from reading the book. Holmes has written a powerful and philosophically erudite survey of what we think we understand about the 9/11 attacks -- and how and why the United States has magnified many times over the initial damage caused by the terrorists.

Stephen Holmes is a law professor at New York University. In The Matador's Cape, he sets out to forge an understanding -- in an intellectual and historical sense, not as a matter of journalism or of partisan politics -- of the Iraq war, which he calls "one of the worst (and least comprehensible) blunders in the history of American foreign policy" (p. 230). His modus operandi is to survey in depth approximately a dozen influential books on post-Cold War international politics to see what light they shed on America's missteps. I will touch briefly on the books he chooses for dissection, highlighting his essential thoughts on each of them.


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Chalmers Johnson is the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy -- Blowback (2000), The Sorrows of Empire (2004), and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2007).

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Theres a point there!
Posted by: TT20 on Oct 24, 2007 12:39 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Considering that 9/11 killed about 6000 people, and the "war on terror" must have killed atleast 60 000 by now!

+9/11 was an inside job!!!

» The best link and Posted by: Constitutionalist75
» RE: HEY 9-11 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS Posted by: Iconoclast421
» A lot of dumb comments here Posted by: johndoraemi
» RE: Counter-Propagandizer Inc. Posted by: channing
» quick responses Posted by: counterpoint
» your 'tactic': calling me a "maggot" Posted by: counterpoint
» 1.5 million Iraqis Posted by: kellysgarden
» RE: Theres a point there! Posted by: odom79
» RE: Theres a point there! Posted by: Bibsi
9/11 was right on schedule
Posted by: vox persona on Oct 24, 2007 1:19 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
If 19 mostly Saudi suicide commandos hadn't carried out their attack, it would have been necessary for CheneyBu$hCo to invent one. Disregarding PDB's (BinLaden determined to attack in US), a CIA Director with his 'hair on fire', reports of suspicious types taking flying lessons but not wanting to learn to land, et al ad nauseam, Bush found it more pressing to read My Pet Goat after being told America is under attack. Supposedly, Cheney overrode NORAD protocols; after all, compare the possible damage sustained by a few errant planes against all that can be gained by such an attack. The unprecedented power grab was immediate like it was planned in advance. Bush declared a war on a tactic (WOT), then seized presidential wartime powers far beyond the framers' intentions, then used that power to launch a very real war on an unrelated country we had fully contained. The huge untapped oil underground was just a coincidence. So now we spend over $3,300 per second on a voluntary and ill advised war, off budget and borrowed from China, and that doesn't even include ancillary costs like lifetime rehab, vet/widow 'benefits', ammo replacement, et al ad nauseam. Am I getting close yet? All the while, Cheney dumps his dollars for Euros (google Cheney Euros) and buys a house in Dubai. Isn't that where Halliburton moved to? Just a coincidence. Iran, here we come. That'll teach you to threaten establishing Euros as the oil denomination, thus weakening the dollar even more (it's already lower than the Canadian dollar). I would go on and on, but I've reached my quease level for the day just thinking about it. Alternet, thanks for the outlet, cheaper than therapy and more effective than scream therapy. 15 more months.....Dog help us all.

» wonderfully concise description Posted by: KaptainSpiffy
» RE: 9/11 was right on schedule Posted by: Iconoclast421
» The best website Posted by: Constitutionalist75
» No, he's not preaching to the choir. AlterNet, like Bill Maher, ... Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
Also the junta’s chance to use Hitler’s 1938 burning of the Reichstag tactic
Posted by: Lector on Oct 24, 2007 1:22 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
This administration’s response to 9/11 was pure madness and they used it as trick to deflect the blame from bin Laden to Saddam since the war with Iraq was planned years before the attack and ever since then the Bushites have been riding high. And so began a return to the McCarthyism era. And the madness in the response was equally reflected in Bush’s comment that it was a “sign from God”. Already Bush had the inside track on God and if you weren’t with him you where against him and against God. How could anyone resist this Absolute Good and Absolute Evil ploy? Thus began Bush’s response in 2001 on his whitehouse.gov website, as well as the lies when he said that “Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans.” Two fighter jets from Ohio?

And following the 59 month period after 9/11, terrorist activity and violence grew by 250 per cent around the world. This was, I’m sure, beyond bin Laden’s nastiest dreams. Bin Laden and Bush needed each other to survive. For OBL Bush’s response was a dynamic for spreading new terrorist activity and for Bush a way to establish his legitimacy as a leader.

Pointless Navigation

» RE: propaganda technics Posted by: richholland
By now, anyone that believes that 9-11 just coincidentally happened at the perfect time...
Posted by: xbj on Oct 24, 2007 1:55 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
...and in the perfect way for these cretins to profit in the trillions from it, is surely so far in denial they might as well die, the lie they're living is so preposterous as to be utterly worthless. Surely keeping a mom and apple pie Andy Hardy American dream lie alive is not worth the nightmare it creates for everyone else on the planet.

No matter the cost of accepting reality.

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."

And there is nothing so childish, so absolutely insane, than undeserved unearned blind patriotism perverted into fascist nationalism.

» Blind patriotism Posted by: Cathyc
He's a Go* Damn Monster!
Posted by: ~Fiona~ on Oct 24, 2007 2:40 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I'm so sick of seeing his stupidly smug face... It'll be Soooo Glad when the world throws his arrogant ass in a prison hole so deep he Never gets out!

Monster!

» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: Moira61
» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: hagwind
» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: Constitutionalist75
» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: Constitutionalist75
» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: Moira61
» RE: He's a Go* Damn Monster! Posted by: blitzmesser
wonderfully concise description
Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Oct 24, 2007 3:31 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
i bet you're now on the 'no fly' list

» RE: wonderfully concise description Posted by: Constitutionalist75
Goodness, there's that fake plane again ...
Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au on Oct 24, 2007 4:07 AM   
Current rating: 3    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
... next to year headline: a picture of George Bush with that fake plane again, about to bury itself into a WTC tower, which, of course, is made of playdough! You see, a real plane, being made of aluminium ("aluminum", you call it), flying into a real WTC tower, would have smashed to smithereens against the concrete and steel wall, cockpit and wings crumpling and fuselage (body) and tail falling, tumbling, straight down, onto the grounds outside the building. Instead, the fake plane, shown "live" by FoxNews, CNN and all the rest of them, goes straight through the wall and buries itself intact in the building as though that was made of playdough (in fact, the building heals itself over the gash caused by the right wing). Tsk, tsk, you Americans, passing off these fake photographs and films to the world as though they were real! I'm reminded of those fake photographs and films of your fake moonlandings! :-)

Never mind, we still love you (except for Bush and the Neocons). My wife is American. :-)

Robert Hoogenboom
Sydney, Australia

» RE: Goodness, there's that fake plane again ... Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» And I'm at least 5.5% wrong Posted by: hagwind
» Disrespectful Posted by: debjbaba
» NOT Disrespectful! Posted by: war_on_tara
» Grave disrespect Posted by: Cathyc
» That is not a video of a plane hitting a WTC tower. Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» Intersting thought, Russian satellite records! Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» Good Try LeftWright! Posted by: gary_7vn
» Absolutely right, Channing Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» Needless to say that if it weren't for you Americans Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» Interesting. Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» RE: Interesting (continued) Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
» Goodness! Thanks, Snideelf! Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
GWOT now art of terrorism
Posted by: robchapman on Oct 24, 2007 4:19 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
With Kurdish seperatists attacking and killing Turkish soldiers in Turkey and fleeing to Iraq, we have the spectacle of American supported terrorists attacking a NATO army.

Can anyone question any longer the futility and ineffectiveness of our war in Iraq?

» RE: GWOT now art of terrorism Posted by: richholland
» RE: GWOT now art of terrorism Posted by: dennisinmemphis
The enemy was always there: Before, during and after the cold war
Posted by: Perfectclue on Oct 24, 2007 4:29 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
The only critique I have with Chalmers, and I think he is one of the best, is that giving even the credit to the Cold war as an enemy, separate from the generic failure, of all national regressions, failures of the democratic revolution, socialist revolutions is to miss ideologically what makes up the class nationalism or even the bureaucratic nationalism of the Eastern Block mislabeled "Communism", although I would agree with the specific term Stalinism, and its more generic ideological term, "class subordinated national revolutions."

Putting it into this ideological and historical framework would help explain the larger picture, that Napoleon, and the Western democratic revolutions, reflected and pointed to the same failures of the socialist revolutions, democracy, under not just Stalinism, but all subordinated national revolutions, a historical implication that alll democratic revolutiions are doomed to fail so long as the class forces dominate on the international level, and can corrupt democratic and social revolutions, on a national level, and even between national levels.

The struggle of the Cold War should be reframed, reconstructed to the failure, yet dominant crippled social development of class forces on civil society. The generic class deformations on civil society was correctly noted and categorized by the Ancient Greeks in class terms, who invented the words, oligarchy, plutocracy, still used today.
However, Plato, did not realize at the time, that these same generic class forces could degenerate not only his utopian attempt to graft democracy onto existing class patriarchy, but would also deform the middle layers, its intellectuals, political class, subordinated to the oligarchy, hence his failure to succeed with his (class) Republic, which reproduced the gaps between social theory, universal standards, and class degeneration, that ultimately created his "noble lies" and the early development of class ideology.

The link to this early failure thousands of years ago gives us the clue to why all democratic and social revolutions have failed so far, and that the ideological separation between the West and mislabeled "Communist" and national revolutions is false. The generic class corruption of middle layers, subordination to class forces and oligarchy, within the state, mirrors the same failures, of the corruption, economic strangulation, subordination of revolutionary middle layers, who have thrown out their class masters, only to be subordinated by other class states, class empires, external to their national revolutions, between class states, that reproduces these same parallel failures of generic class corruption, so long as class forces dominate on the international level.

This larger historical and ideological view would then place the enemy, class society, class subordination, class ideologies, class elites, and their hierarchies, as always existing, before socialism, before capitalism, as a class mechanism, long term historical class lever in place, for most of our 5000 plus years of patriarchy, the first form of class society, that shifted the social lever, historical lever of egalitarian and matriarchical relations, from its neural position, social center, to its class center, where all class forms are to the right, hence the false designation of the "left", which holds the true social and moral center, on which a fully developed middle class, without class masters, oligarchy was the moral and social basis promoted during the Enlightenment, and after its betrayal by the class liberals, reconstructed in the Post Enlightenment, by the socialist movement and Karl Marx.

Therefore the enemy has always been there the class failure of our civil societies, and the false dichotomy between crippled national revolutions, either Western or Eastern blocks, reveals the deep failure ideologically and historically to understand it.

» Don Barleone Posted by: Iconoclast421
» REPLY TO MARVINBEATY: Posted by: Perfectclue
Hank
Posted by: hankgeorge on Oct 24, 2007 4:54 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
For heavens sake, quit vexing over how we could have failed to know about 9/11 or intercept the rogue planes. Study what happened and if you still cannot recognize an intentional "stand down" when you see one, then you need some basic education. This country has not failed to intercept a single potentially rogue plane for years...spotless record...then we failed on 4 on one day, including one airborne for > 90 minutes. Open your eyes, folks.

» RE: Hank Posted by: richholland
» RE: Hank Posted by: VZEQICVA
» The best website Posted by: Constitutionalist75
9/11 Was An Inside Job, YOU DUMMIES!
Posted by: starhelix on Oct 24, 2007 4:55 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
When are people in positions to do something about the greatest con job in human history going to get a clue and expose the simple fact the 9/11 attacks were an inside job? There's sufficient evidence in the public record to demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt the Bush story about 9/11 was a gigantic lie. The Twin Towers were blown up. They didn't fall down due to fire. Guiliani desecrated a crime scene and sent the evidence off to China. WHY? WTC 7 wasn't hit by a plane. Why did it fall? WHY? How come to this day NO ONE has been held accountable for the alleged lapse in our impregnable half trillion dollar defense and intelligence shield. WHY? Why haven't the suspicious Bush family connections to security at the Twin Towers been fully investigated? WHY? For that matter, why haven't the clear and decades-long ties between the Bush and bin Laden families been fully investigated, as well. WHY? There are hundreds if not thousands of important and unanswered questions about 9/11, but no one in major media wants the job of exposing this obvious charade. Are we supposed to believe a bunch of Arabs, who didn't live here, who barely spoke the language, who've never established any ability to fly jumbo jets, were led by some dude named bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan, completely eluded our defense shield and used only box cutters to hijack four jumbo jets and executed their evil plans flawlessly? No second-grader would believe this ridiculous tale. So, why do so many of our vaunted press and pundits place any credibility in this story? The Bush mob has never told the truth to the American people...EVER! So, why do you believe this criminal excuse? Whether we want to believe our own government attacked our people or not isn't the issue. A cursory examination of the facts dismisses Bush's balderbleep. The real question is do we want to continue this massive fraud indefinitely or do we want to summon the uncommon courage to face the fact the 9/11 Bush story is a pack of lies and do whatever we can to expose the criminal element in our government who were responsible for these heinous acts? Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial media incarceration complex (MIMIC). Now, these monsters are running our government. So, what are WE going to do about it? Whether we like it or not only the TRUTH will preserve our republic and set us free. Fairy tales simply won't do.

The Administration's response to 9-11 had been in planning BEFORE they were installed into office
Posted by: xbj on Oct 24, 2007 5:43 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Karen Kwiatkowski in "Why We Fight" and a multitude of others WHO WERE THERE have stated that the planning for the Iraq/Iran Mideast war commenced from the very first day of the Adminstration, if not before, and certainly long before 9-11.

At the very least they knew 9-11 was coming, although they pretended throughout the entire year of 2001 to be utterly incompetent by ignoring every warning by every other country and intelligence agency on the planet.

Inside job? Impossible to be otherwise. Too convenient, and they were too opportunistic in their response for it to be otherwise. Suddenly an inept Administration goes whole hog into very effectively completely controlling the media and selling a useless unwinnable war to a nation that went through Viet Nam?

Leopards don't change their spots. Ever.

People who support them (and they themselves) just can't have it both ways. Either they were utterly incompetent and let it happen via their incompetence, or they planned and implemented it from the word Go.

Either way they are 100% culpable and responsible. And in a world without Diebold they would have been history in 2004 based on their incompetence and malfeasance alone.

And now they think China and Russia will sit idly by as they nuke Iran. They are not only the worst treasonous bastards America was ever cursed with, they're completely out of their minds with desperation and may well end the noble experiment that was the United States of America once and for all.

» Bush knows perfectly well Posted by: Constitutionalist75
This article reeks as much as the Popular Mechanics Debunking
Posted by: dustdevil on Oct 24, 2007 6:04 AM   
Current rating: 3    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Any article that starts off on the premise that Al Qaeda attacked us on 911 is a waste of time.

Most readers of Alternet know the Bush administration has never shown any hard evidence that Bin Laden or Al Qaeda was involved. And if they were, it was only as patsies to give cover for the Neocons.

If you wade through all the pseudo-intellectual crap in this article, the only worthwhile paragraph is at the end, where it is suggested that we must do away with the empire.

A much better subject instead of all those wasted words would be a detailed plan of how we should go about dissolving the empire.

» spineless propaganda recepticle Posted by: Iconoclast421
» Exactly, Dustdevil! Posted by: Robert_Hoogenboom@leftfoot.com.au
Do you think anything will really change?
Posted by: Wish on Oct 24, 2007 6:13 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I hope so, but I doubt it.
Too many Americans are too apathetic to do anything, and are more interested in the next American Idol than grand (grotesk) events that change the world (and certainly not for the better). Whining about taxes, while absurd amounts go to the militaristic industry, war profitering criminals like Haliburton, etc. Cheering when propagandistic blahblah blurts phrases again like "America the great", "God bless America", "Freedom", "Democracy", "It is needed for you safety" etc etc etc. While freedom is diminished all the time. All for the illusion of 'safety'. You have so much more to fear from your own government, and your own inhabitants, than from any socalled terrorist.
Authority is not something to take for granted, but as my father always said, authority needs to be questioned. That is one of your duties.
Turn off your bloody tv's, get your heads out of your behinds, and start showing interest in the world around you. Stop being so egotistic and start understanding that this world cán be paradise, by living and working together. That what you do there in the US affects the whole world. You are not alone.
Most of the world happens outside the US.
One of these days the US may be declared bankrupt, the dollar will no longer be the leading international currency (and rightfully so).
And stop being so bloody righteous, especially when it comes to 'god'. How can it be that those who claim the loudest that Jesus is their savior, are those who are the strongest supporters of the most narrowminded, violent, oppressive, backward and conservative idea's?? Jesus was the biggest progressive of all, preaching peace and understanding and harmony. God, if you believe in such an entity or not, created an everchanging world. The socalled 'religious' people keep fighting to never let anything change. That must be why they cannot stand any criticism and have no self-criticism, and always feel 'insulted' by anything and attack anyone who says anything against them: they do not have the guts and courage and responsibility to ever take a,oook at themselves and live in constant fear that they might be living a lie. No, how much easier it is to always accuse other and impose your limited and destructive ways of live onto others.

Change?
It starts with an honest look in the mirror.

And where the hell are those "small government" advocates when you need them the most?
Posted by: maxpayne on Oct 24, 2007 6:55 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I'd like to see the same "Libertarians" who call for reducing government to call for an ABOLITION of the CIA, FBI, FCC, FTC, NSA, DEA, Warfare, Corporate Welfare, etc ...

» A Plan Posted by: Iconoclast421
Excellent article...
Posted by: Captainmagic on Oct 24, 2007 7:24 AM   
Current rating: Not yet rated    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I must admit to not having read any of the books mentioned in the article but then I don't really have to. In my small world, my colleagues and I often talked about cause and effect. Just as we did when, as soldiers faced with the task of accomplishing a mission....You pay your enemy with a certain respect because you are looking for a successful outcome for everyone. Clumsy just does not look good on your curriculum vitae. Barbarism under fire was as low as you could go and still is. Unleashing gratuitous amounts of firepower to achieve a result is a part of the American way...Brought up on too many western shoot em ups perhaps, who knows..a gun cabinet as a standard option for the consummate householder is seen as humorous by the rest of the world... A party trick for travelling Americans is for them to be first of all welcomed formally then enquiringly asked, could we see their gun...

The article does not seem to mention that which always presented us with intrigue but I guess would be outlined in the books he regards and that is of cause the real, total, and only reason this form of devastation was visited upon the poor peoples of Iraq and as we have always known. Cause and effect asked us, "what happens when the behemoth runs out of fuel".....OIL......Answer... It shakes and rattles every door and window until it finds one loose and then it invites itself in and becomes the parasite that it is. A wolf in sheep's clothing maybe, but we never saw the insane wolf....especially one, in a once prestigeous country as America...but there you are...America has fallen...well done for a while, people.

We wait to repair the Hero Iraqi's. We will be there for them.
One word for the Iraqi's ......'UNITE'.....and then it is done.

Captain OUT

BUSH SEIZED AN OPPORTUNITY
Posted by: VZEQICVA on Oct 24, 2007 7:28 AM   
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Unlike Roosevelt who had a calming effect on the nation on 12/7/1941, Bush cashed in on the the fear and hysteria. Constant reminders of what might happen next. We would never again be 'fine'. To catch the 'evil doers' we all became suspects. He hasn't caught many of the