After 911, many people became absorbed with the notion that America was indeed fortunate George W. Bush was selected president instead of wonkish, popular vote winner Al Gore.
The surrealistic horror of the attacks helped make it easy to overlook Bush's underlying constellation of deep personal flaws, to ignore the increasingly evident mendacity and discount his unabashedly cavalier attitude about all things intellectual.
In the aftermath of the attacks, Bush's non-cognitive, hyper-macho, pseudo-cowboy persona seemed in precise alignment with the inherent twin yearnings for naked retribution and military vindication --- emotion-fed desires that clouded the nation's collective judgment.
Nearly six years later, look where that has gotten America.
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