#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday December 27)
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#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday December 27) Good morning, After six decades of the 20th century, here are my favorite books of the 2000s! The decade of 2001 (the “aughts”) began with a President who withstood the most contentious and close campaign in over 100 years. But after Bush v. Gore finally was resolved, the President began with an inclusive mantra of “compassionate conservativism.” Shortly thereafter, in September 2001, our country sustained multiple audacious attacks on our soil and things changed forever. Little did we know that the feeling of collaborative working together would devolve into two wars that would drain our coffers and continue for years. More important, these wars challenged the limits of American power, posed issues of our humanity (in the form of “enhanced interrogation,” the Abu Graib prison, and the limited legal rights at Guantanamo Bay), and stretched our national consensus to a period of all-out war between the parties, the ramifications of which continue to this day. This also was the decade of Katrina, the start of the ubiquitous march of school and other mass shootings and the financial meltdown that brought the decade to a close.
#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday December 27)
#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday…
#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday December 27)
#825 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday December 27) Good morning, After six decades of the 20th century, here are my favorite books of the 2000s! The decade of 2001 (the “aughts”) began with a President who withstood the most contentious and close campaign in over 100 years. But after Bush v. Gore finally was resolved, the President began with an inclusive mantra of “compassionate conservativism.” Shortly thereafter, in September 2001, our country sustained multiple audacious attacks on our soil and things changed forever. Little did we know that the feeling of collaborative working together would devolve into two wars that would drain our coffers and continue for years. More important, these wars challenged the limits of American power, posed issues of our humanity (in the form of “enhanced interrogation,” the Abu Graib prison, and the limited legal rights at Guantanamo Bay), and stretched our national consensus to a period of all-out war between the parties, the ramifications of which continue to this day. This also was the decade of Katrina, the start of the ubiquitous march of school and other mass shootings and the financial meltdown that brought the decade to a close.