Being in downtown NYC, I saw the whole thing happen and then lived through the crazy days that came after it. I will never forget the shock, rage, and fear of that period.
But by its seventh anniversary there's an even more hateful overlay. Now, 9/11 invokes in my memory above all:
1) "All right, you've covered your ass. You can go home now." (Bush to the CIA briefer in August 2001.)
2) My Pet Goat.
3) The instantaneous decision, made at the top but immediately embraced (and indeed anticipated) by the entire Republican establishment and base, to treat it as a wedge issue for political gain, rather than as a Pearl Harbor-like national focal point. Only people who hated their opponents and loved power more than they cared about anything else could have done such a thing. If there were a hell they would rot in it eternally for that alone.
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- Daniel Shaviro
- New York, New York, United States
- I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.
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You've pretty much summed up some of my more angry thoughts on the subject. I am also disappointed that we squandered so much at the time, in terms of opportunity, hope and change for the future.
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