This one doesn't go to 9-11

[Adam]

The Black Hole of 9/11 - By David J. Rothkopf | Foreign Policy

One way to demonstrate that restoration of historical sensibility comes if we ask ourselves, looking back over the past 10 years, what other developments took place that exceed 9/11 in lasting importance? What events of the past decade will historians write of that will have them looking past or beyond the attack, its masterminds, or its immediate response? There are scores, I suspect. Here are just 10 that come to me off the top of my head.

His choices are interesting. One thing I'm surprised not to see on there is peak oil.

[wei yau]

I know which thread title I'm voting for the month of September

[livius drusus]

We spoke of 9/11 as though it were somehow equivalent to Pearl Harbor, the beginning of a global war against enemies bent on, and at least theoretically capable of, destroying the American way of life (unlike al Qaeda, a ragtag band of extremists with limited punch). We spoke of cultural wars and a divided world. We reorganized our entire security establishment to go after a few thousand bad guys. We went mad.

Who's we, Kemosabe?

[LadyShea]

We as Americans I gather, it was a strangely phrased piece.

[JoeP]

From the article

Andrew Card, leaned forward to whisper the news of the attack in his ear and said, "America is under attack." Although factually accurate, the statement was in the language of traditional wars with traditional enemies

Oceania has always been at war.