Work toward peace, not conflict  by William C. Bailey Guest
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Print  In just a few days we’ll be hitting the 12th anniversary
of 9/11. It seems like a lifetime has passed in those 12 years.
In the years since that fateful September day the world has
changed in ways that on Sept.10 of that very same year we would
have thought unimaginable.  We have increased the surveillance
society at least two to four fold. We have added multiple
government agencies. We have devoted billions upon billions to
fight terrorism in both domestic policing and foreign
engagements, including two wars which to some degree still
continue to this day more than a decade past starting.  We have
launched drone strikes, created no fly zones, grown suspicious
of neighbors, tried to stifle dissent and been fearful of color
coded terror alerts, which then gave way to anger then apathy.
This country which came together in ways unlike how we had ever
seen quickly after those attacks