Fresh Eye on the Radio: The things we do to ourselves
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Today, the U.S. attorney general tried to explain to worried U.S. senators why he will try the mastermind of 9/11 in a civil court. Coincidentally, the Eden Prairie News on the same day was carrying details of new security arrangements around Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie. Barely-hanging-on businesses will now be encased in barbed wire and chain-links, even though no general aviation airplane has ever been used in a terrorist attack on the United States.
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A Ryder Truck has been used for terrorism, but you don't need to pass through security to rent one today.
A lot of the damage to our psyche in the wake of 9/11, we've done to ourselves. That's the topic of today's Fresh Eye on the Radio conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
By the way, I do realize these things are running way too long. We'll get them shortened up starting tomorrow and get back to the music.
