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Bush (and luck) have shielded US

By Jacob Weisberg

Published: September 6 2006 19:29 | Last updated: September 6 2006 19:29

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After September 11 2001, nearly everyone expected life inside the US to change significantly and for the worse. Americans had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we would have to learn to accommodate the ongoing threat of terrorist violence – like Israelis, Spaniards during the era of Basque separatism or Britons in the heyday of the IRA.

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