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Dark diary: a post-9/11 alternative history.

The American Enterprise

| September 01, 2005 | Dowd, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2005 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

There are those who believe that people are merely a part of history, pieces of driftwood carried along by forces and currents often beyond our control. Others argue that history is shaped by individuals--that the right person in the right place can alter the course of human events.

Certainly Osama bin Laden shifted the historical tide on September 11, 2001. As General Tommy Franks put it, bin Laden created a "crease in history" on 9/11, a fault line that changed how we piece together the past, how we live the present, how we look at the future.

To their credit, Americans have--so far--resisted the winds unleashed on that Tuesday morning four years ago, ...

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