Kelvin's Sites's Journal on "Our Journey So Far"

A good read! URL: http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs9538

Also see the comments particularly the last one. Here is the last comment to that article.

Ira Chernus, a Professor at the University of Colorado, wrote that November 9, 1989 -- not September 11, 2001 --changed everything, when the Berlin Wall fell and left the U.S. at sea, drifting without an enemy (USSR) in a strange new world. The world's sole remaining superpower was "running out of demons," as Colin Powell complained. After a decade adrift with no foes to oppose, 9/11 happened and Americans returned to a black-and-white world, neatly divided into the good guys and the bad guys. In the hands of the Bush administration, "terrorists," modest as their numbers might have been, turned out to be remarkably able stand-ins for a whole empire-plus of "commies." They became our all-purpose symbol for the evil that fills our waking nightmares. The war on terrorism has revived the Cold War mindset, in which we are all citizens of a national insecurity state, with a recent poll revealing that only 14% of Americans feel safer now than they did five years ago. Many write that the United States reached the peak of its power in the late 1940s. Now with the growing awareness that the Bush Global War on Terror is doing more harm than good, not to speak of the weakening of U.S. power and interests around the world, it would interesting to read articles of how/if folks in middle America are viewing all this. http://grant-montgomery.blogspot.com/

That's so true.... Interestting as well.