oh-whiskers:
‘…If anyone wanted to know, in a nutshell, how the aftermath of 9/11 has affected America, all he or she had to do was read the news from Vermont last week. In the wake of Hurricane Irene’s massive damage to the state, the Burlington Free Press reported that the state’s National Guard had to borrow eight helicopters from Illinois to help stricken citizens, because all of the Vermont Guard’s choppers are in Iraq. That’s as good an emblem of post-9/11 America as we’re going to find: a country so needlessly overextended militarily that our domestic welfare goes begging.’
