9-11 -- Then and Now Posted by David Shorr

Of the many disorienting things on 9/11/01, it was particularly strange to find myself living 1,000 miles away from the two cities where, up to then, I'd spent all but one of my years. As we know, New Yorkers are famous for not being very attuned to the rest of the country. Of course that has been a two-way avenue, too, with plenty of suspicion from beyond the Hudson River looking at New York City as a kind of foreign land (not to mention the nation's capital). That sense of distance may have narrowed during the years since, but as a then-newly transplanted Midwesterner the solidarity was palpable and appreciated.

Fast-forward to the current political circus over a neighborhood I'll always remember as the site of my first job after college. Which prompts a new version of the question about the relationship between "The City" (sorry) and the country. How much first-hand knowledge do these people have of Lower Manhattan, with their passionate views about its real estate should be zoned?  I don't mean this as a question of what gives someone the standing to have an opinion about the mosque. Instead my point is about the relationship between all this intense symbolism and an actual place where people work and live. What do those streets really represent? What should they? As I point out in a post over at TMPCafe, the poet Andrei Codrescu addressed these issues much more eloquently (not to say presciently) back in September 2002.

[Update: There was more to say about the Cordoba opponents' slippery relationship with basic constitutional rights and religious liberty.]

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