The immediate political and social aftermath of nine 11 in the us. How did it shape who americans are and how they think about their country and the world? This is the only air strike America has experienced, certainly since pearl harper. Literally, for days afterward, smelling the air that was polluted by burning corpses. And it could have made america receptive and ampathetic to what it is like to be a victim of an air strike.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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