"We're five years into this War on Terrorism, and I cannot count the number of times I have asked myself The Question: "is this really happening?"
I thought it in 2001 as I watched the two towers fall. I thought it again in 2003 as I watched shock & awe light up my TV screen. I thought it in 2004 as I saw pictures of Abu Ghraib. And I questioned reality again in 2005 as I read about the scope of the domestic spying program.
Reality. I like to think of it as that America we bid farewell to on September 11th as we welcomed this stranger we call America today into our lives. Reality has changed so drastically over the last five years that it at times defies belief. It's difficult to wrap my head around this rapid decent into such an... uncomfortable state of being.
But no matter how I crave the America of September 10th, I must live in this new reality, produced and distributed by the GOP--a reality which feels fake, forced, and foreign..."