Our president spent his first year in office living indolent at his Texas ranch, enjoying the complacency bought by U.S. hegemony, fatuously unaware of the incipient threat of terrorist attack which, after Sept. 11, 2001, would juxtapose the hyperbole of Capitalism's intrinsic nobility and economic fecundity against the inane and facile supposition that the nascent nationalisms of the developing world would never raise their furtive gaze to the foibles of a world trade hierarchy and, therefore, would never embark upon the frenetic response that would eventually produce the ironic destruction of the Twin Towers, provoke the president into gratuitous warfare, make even more fecund the fountains of anti-US sentiment, and forever destroy the hypothetical imperviousness of America's homeland.
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