Four Years Later: Poets, Prophets, and the War in Iraq

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. On September 11th, 2001, I was teaching at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. On the first anniversary of the attacks, the Helena Independent Record asked a group of local pundits and academics to offer their thoughts on the effects of the attacks on America. Four years later, I offer my editorial again, with no small sense of sadness and with a much greater sense of urgency