Dorian’s Reviews > Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power > Status Update

for nothing is more dangerous to [Bush administration] than that sense of citizenship, fearlessness, and communion with the world that is distinct from the blind patriotism driven by fear. They used 9/11 as an excuse to launch attacks inside and outside the United States, but it was not an inevitable or even a legitimate response—in fact, 9/11 was largely an excuse to carry out existing agendas of imperial expansion.