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When President Bush called Americans to enlist in his "war on terror," very
few citizens could have grasped the all-encompassing consequences of the
proposition. The terrifying events of 9/11 were like a blinding flash,
benumbing the country with a sudden knowledge of unimagined dangers. Strong
action was recommended, skeptics were silenced and a shallow sense of unity
emerged from the shared vulnerabilities. Nearly three years later, the
enormity of Bush's summons to open-ended "war" is more obvious. It
overwhelmed the country, in fact deranged society's normal processes and
purposes with a brilliantly seductive political message: Terror pre-empts
everything else.

What this President effectively accomplished was to restart the cold war,
albeit under a new rubric. The justifying facts are different and smaller,
but the ideological dynamics are remarkably similar--a total commitment of
the nation's energies to confront a vast, unseen and malignant......

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