I was a young adult at the time, and my weird 9/11 opinion is that if you don't get the impact of the anthrax letters, you don't get what it felt like back then. 9/11 was horrific. But the anthrax letters made it feel like we were under siege. Wrongly, as we now know; they weren't coordinated.

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right. it really is just this patina of scientific discretion that hides how much they pick and choose salacious rumors

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Perhaps my last point about this is that you hear all the time here about how "there are no military solutions for political problems." This is mysteriously forgotten whenever the subject turns to the ACW

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Our understanding of the civil war's war aims is anachronistic www.amazon.com/dp/067406608...

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I think the “but the South won the peace through armed terrorism” argument is really nonsense

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