Jamie Rubin

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3,234 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

And so you had the whole political spectrum from the far right to the far left, uh, ready to go to war and to sacrifice soldiers. voice-verified

Because during the nineties, when I was in office under President Clinton, you know, w this was a time when America was ascendant, and when one soldier was at risk or two soldiers was at risk, the whole country stopped and w uh, you know, stopped and tried to voice-verified

Worry about that one airman who was missing over Bosnia, for example. voice-verified

And so now the firemen and the police and with the firemen and the policemen who rushed into the building, hundreds of them, risking their lives to save other people, um, this whole notion of sacrifice changed. voice-verified

So now the fireman in the voice-verified

And the idea that one would sacrifice for one's country became much more voice-verified

normalized. voice-verified

And that was why it was easier. voice-verified

I I don't mean it it that it was easy, but it was easier to envisage the use of American ground forces, which hadn't been done in, you know, decades. voice-verified

And I think President Biden spoke to this very well much later in a different context we can talk about. voice-verified

And we overreacted. voice-verified

Um but the but people should remember that it wasn't just nine eleven and the three thousand people who died there. voice-verified

Soon thereafter there was a biological weapon attack on the prominent Americans. voice-verified

And that combination uh put everyone in a particular war footing. voice-verified

People began to develop, you know, kits to escape from New York on a canoe and have biological weapons. voice-verified

protection shots and gas masks and all of this stuff that had never occurred before. voice-verified

And it changed American politics. voice-verified

And and let's remember that never again will we be able to travel as easily as we did prior to nine eleven. voice-verified

I don't think people even remember anymore how different it was prior to nine eleven to just get on an airplane. voice-verified

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