April 21, 2006

Strange Bedfellows

By GEORGE MICHAEL

Americans, stunned by the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon, asked themselves, "Why did this happen?" The denizens of the extreme right in America believed they knew why. While mainstream commentators and public officials claimed that it was our values of freedom and democracy that made us targets, shortly after the attacks, extremist Internet discussion groups buzzed with a far different message: The United States had been attacked because of its support for the state of

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