Whoa Now, Let’s Back Up a Bit
Is there a collective consciousness from the days before September eleventh?
Do we recall our world and the way it functioned? We had, in those simpler times, an FBI that enjoyed some degree of public confidence, manned by straight-arrow law enforcement professionals, mostly able to solve the crimes that eluded local police structures. Our military was well equipped and capable, although they hadn’t been asked anything terribly dramatic since the seventies. The CIA had what they have always had, reasonably competent agents throughout a troubled world, but less troubled than it had been in recent memory.
Then all hell broke loose and we lost every shred of confidence in ourselves, our government and the various agencies that stood ready to protect us. Since then, in our panic and conflicted needs, it’s been a blame-game and a tearing down of all the structures that worked for us so far.
Time to stop. Catch our breath.
Time to know that we are strong enough as a nation to get through the sh…