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Since Unknowncountry.com began its coverage of 911 and I began reading my ‘What I Love About America’ statement on the radio, hundreds of people have voted with their feet, quitting my newsletter and abandoning the website.

It has been a hard, hard few weeks in our world, beginning with 911 and ending now with the latest FBI warning that Sunday could bring another terror attack. Anne and I have spent a great deal more time on Unknowncountry.com than ever before. The number of stories published by the site has quadrupled.
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Before September 11, we were one country. Now we are another. In the old America, we were self-assuredly embarking on what was actually a very strange and forked road. On the one hand, our new administration was promoting globalism and free trade. On the other, it was pursuing a policy of isolation and disengagement. It had more-or-less withdrawn from the Arab-Israeli peace process. Our national defense was being refocused on two things: a massive reduction in our conventional armed forces, and the creation of an anti-missile shield. We were in the process of simultaneously encouraging open borders while at the same time withdrawing from our foreign military commitments.
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