>There never was an innocent year.>No notion is more naive (which is not the same as innocence) than the one supposing America ever had an innocence to lose, a peculiar conceit in a country that began as a slave society in the process of exterminating the folks who got here first. One need not feel guilty about this history to recognize it and to acknowledge its inconsistency with innocence.>But there was a time when the delusion of innocence was easy to believe, when the myth was at least as useful as it was deceiving. That time ended when 1964 did.
I thought you guys assured me 2000, the year before 9/11 was the last innocent year.
