What a thing to have woken up to on the West Coast that morning: While you were sleeping, everything changed.Īt this moment, five years ago, I was on a bridge over the Potomac near the Pentagon. The sun is just now just coming up here even as, on CNN, Cheney is making remarks at the Pentagon and the timeline notes the crash of Flight 93, at 10:02 a.m., in Pennsylvania five years ago. The no-liquids rule makes no exception for special vintages. Next to a trash bin: An unopened, perfectly lovely looking bottle of French bordeaux. ![]() Dulles was crazy - maybe everyone wanted to fly on 9/10 rather than 9/11. Hardly anyone knew what to do with Iraq once the invasion was over. ![]() Talk about incompetence, hubris, cultural ignorance. I'm marking the anniversary by reading Rajiv's book on post-invasion Iraq, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City." It's a great read, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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