Seems to me, Sean, that America will never admit any sort of responsibility for what happened. Even if it becomes clear that this whole thing could have been prevented if the U.S. had taken a more active role in validating a marginalized Arab position, I'm too cynical to think that our country's chiefs are ever going to say, "Oh bugger. We really screwed up this time." Hell, it's pulling teeth as it is to get any elected official to admit that we goofed with slavery. That said, I'm with you on the fear of a xenophobic backlash. I smell incoming airport-security-induced discrimination lawsuits, from sea to shining sea.
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