It’s hard in the moment to make sense of the significance. I see online the shock and horror people are feeling, and some of the images are as memorable as the grainy ones seared into my memory of soldiers climbing like rats over the walls of the PTV building, the state broadcaster in Pakistan. After the last few years does it matter? Is this the moment that disgusts the non-crazy right in America that they repudiate all of this? Or maybe just another moment to be more or less forgotten, like the burning of the White House by the British?
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