9/11 Attacks: Avoiding the Hard Questions - Boston Globe

[Wind Dancer]

By Robert Steinback


I was 8 years old when President John Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas in 1963. If grace favors me, I'll be 62 when documents related to the assassination are released to the public, and 84 when the Warren Commission's investigative files into the tragedy are finally opened.

That's a long time to wait for a chance to evaluate the purported truth.

It's a blot on the presumed sophistication of the people of the United States that any aspect of an event so dramatic and shocking should be kept from us. Perhaps it's true, to abuse the line from A Few Good Men yet again, that we can't handle the truth. But there cannot be genuine resolution as long as such critical information remains concealed.

Transformed by 9/11

Since Kennedy's assassination, Americans have lurched between demanding to know and plugging their ears: The Pentagon Papers, My Lai, the King assassination, Watergate, Iran-contra, the savings-and-loan debacle, Monicagate. Lately, however, it would seem the public's verdict is in: Don't tell us. Keep us in the dark. We don't want to know.

This is the worst possible time for probe-ophobia to grip us. Our nation was irretrievably transformed by 9/11 -- and yet there remain troubling questions about what really happened before, during and after that day. Rather than demanding a full and fearless vetting to hone in on the truth and silence the conjecture about 9/11, many Americans remain unwilling to peer into the microscope.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0201-28.htm

Surprised to find this in a mainstream newspaper.

[Wilms]

1. Yahoo News covered it the other day, too.

Perhaps the wire-taps pushed people over the edge.

[Sperk]

2. wrote an note to the author welcoming him back to his profession.

if you have a few minutes, drop him a note of thanks.

[hopeisaplace]

3. Perhaps the media is finally figuring out that without them

it could get really really bad - and perhaps they smell another bullshit war
coming.