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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
"All the chatter was of an attack, a potential al Qaeda attack overseas. But interestingly enough, the president got concerned about whether there was the possibility of an attack on the homeland. He asked the intelligence community: 'Look hard. See if we're missing something about a threat to the homeland.'
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Shit. Was Bush really using the term "the homeland" before 9/11?
I've kind of wrapped my brain around the idea of the Department of Homeland Security in that the phrase makes sense in the context of a "war" on terror and the potential for direct attack on America itself instead of just American allies and and assets, but the term "homeland" has always bothered me as being a little too unamerican for my taste. It smacks of the Fatherland, a very European concept that doesn't feel appropriate in the context of America. I guess I'm saying that I'm bothered by the fact that Bush is either not aware or not bothered by the authoritarian overtones of the phrase.
