The 19 nineties were full of a sort of foreboding and confusion. The end of the cold war would have made americans feel pretty great, as our country was. And so for a lot of American blob, natse iliads in politicians are something comforting about once again having a big enemy that posed an exdential threat.
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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