Note to the people who say we should just “get over” 9/11 … even the Pentagon acknowledges that we could not have gotten to the point of militarization we now see without the events of 9/11 and subsequent fear-mongering:

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops
to domestic response — a nearly sevenfold increase in five years — “would
have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable,” Paul McHale, assistant
defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies.