In Reply: "...we are a society who can handle differing religions, political philosophies, dissent, and even a bit of unintentional insensitivity..."

In reply to xpostfactoid: Christopher Caldwell girds for civilizational war near Ground Zero

Hear, hear!!

What got to me most (and what I posted on my own blog) was the idea that 9/11 was some kind of defeat for the US. While it lead to to some of us questioning our fundamental values and unfortunately finding them insufficient and unworkable, this time, at no time has the US been defeated by this or any terrorist attack, and if this reactionary nut doesn't realize that, he ought to go back and read our founding documents and our long history of being a pluralist and in all ways diverse society. While we've never been perfect, and while some situations do cause us to stumble, for a time, we are a society who can handle differing religions, political philosophies, dissent, and even a bit of unintentional insensitivity...

You bring out a bunch of great points (that honestly, I wish I had, in my own piece... 8>)

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