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Squandering the trauma of September 11
"Lucky me, I hit the trifecta," said George Bush in the immediate aftermath of September 11, according to his budget director.
The trauma of September 11 has been squandered as a political factor. Just as Bush has misspent the goodwill of the world, he has wasted his opportunity to create any consensus at home. Bush, moreover, is patently using 9/11 not for "changing times" but to advance his reactionary social agenda. Rather than appearing "steady", he is setting himself against change, including changing his own policies. What he has left is a negative campaign. If he cannot elevate himself on the presidential pedestal he must throw himself into the abattoir of the culture war.
"They have been shown to trash anyone, anywhere, anytime," [former Senator Max] Cleland told me. "They seek to slander a noble veteran's record who was wounded and the only member of his division in the navy who won a silver star. Use 9/11? Have they no shame? Listen, John Kerry knows that the slime machine is targeting him and his family. We discussed this before the race. Somebody's got to fight. That's the way it's turning out, the band of brothers against the slime machine."
"They have been shown to trash anyone, anywhere, anytime," [former Senator Max] Cleland told me. "They seek to slander a noble veteran's record who was wounded and the only member of his division in the navy who won a silver star. Use 9/11? Have they no shame? Listen, John Kerry knows that the slime machine is targeting him and his family. We discussed this before the race. Somebody's got to fight. That's the way it's turning out, the band of brothers against the slime machine."
- - Sidney Blumenthal.
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