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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
But it's true. Attitudes therefore strategies and priorities changed. Not necessarily justified, but sadly true.
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SOME attitudes changed.
SOME strategies and priorities changed.
They changed for people who wanted them to change, or allowed them to change.
They changed, primarily, for those who allowed the actions of a small group to alter their attitudes towards a region, a nation or a religion as a whole.
They changed for those who previously held an "Everything the US does is good, and the rest of the world respects and admires us" attitude -- and in that case, change is good.
They changed for those in the government that used 9/11 as a pretext to do things (here and abroad) that they'd wanted to do all along, and cranked up their aggression several notches in the name of the "war on terra."
And, in changing, they annoyed the heck out of the rest of us.