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11 September 2001

Infamy

What an unbelievably horrifying day.

Thankfully, everyone I know who was in or might have been in the World Trade Center or the Pentagon is safe tonight. I grieve for the thousands more who are not.

I am too numb still to write about the emotions of what happened, although I did throw together a sober strategic analysis. I will just say that for someone who believes in the principles of the founding, natural right, rule of law, and the like, today's attack was an assault on all of those things. Painful. Evil.

At work this morning, I was actually dragged into an administrative meeting with a Brit who is effectively my group's new boss. It lasted an hour or so. At 11:30, I wandered over to the Galleria for lunch, though I really wasn't hungry. Looking across the street, it was strangely heartening to see the flags at the Marriott already flying at half-mast. A small act of decency. A symbol of what we are.

For those of us who have been warning about this day, it's sickening. I would rather be the crackpot who sees illusory strategic threats everywhere than the one who saw what our policies left us open to.

We know today's news. No blogging until Wednesday. I might as well announce that I'll probably be updating the majority of the blog in the early evening from now on, a decision that has nothing to do with today's events.

[Posted @ 10:44 PM CST]


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