MSNBC Morning Joe December 31, 2009
and it went to the supreme court. that in a way was the template for what happened for the next ten years, because all of the old rules went by the boards. we no longer did things the way we had become accustomed to doing them. we were caught in an unawarist fashion by almost everything else. 2001 was a perfect example of that. 9/11. even though there were attacks on american warships and american embassies and american barracks, we sat back fat, dumb and happy and said it will never happen here and it did. and suddenly we're not at war against another nation, but against a stateless...