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I just finished “Foreign Terrorists Have Never Been Our Biggest Threat” Paul Krugman’s latest op ed. This paragraph jumped out at me:  

Yet the exploitation of 9/11 by people who wanted a wider war — and the selling of that war on false pretenses, which should have been considered an unforgivable abuse of public trust — has faded from public discourse. And you hear hardly anything about the parallel way in which terrorism was exploited for domestic political goals.

I pasted a copy of this paragraph and left the following comment:

I live in New Hampshire, which just passed a law banning instruction in “divisive topics”. I don’t imagine many children in my home state will be reading this article or ANY analyses of 9-11 that fail to emphasize how our nation united against a common foreign enemy. The same legislators who passed this legislation and the GOP Governor who signed it lament the lack of “critical thinking skills” in schools and see no disconnect. Oh… and that same legislature and governor passed a bill to clarify that “showing off a firearm does not by itself rise to an offense”. We may not be allowed to discuss the roots of terrorism in NH, but we can flash a firearm to thwart a terrorist. Go figure….