Pearl Harbor

Es soll am 11. September 2001 gewesen sein, nach den Angriffen:

Walking home to her [Susan Jacoby's] Upper East Side apartment, she said, overwhelmed and confused, she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:

“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.

The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”

“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.

At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”

Das Buch von Susan Jacoby über den amerikanischen Anti-Intellektualismus liegt inzwischen vor und ist in der New York Times vom 14. Februar besprochen worden, der die obigen Zeilen entnommen sind. Das Buch trägt den Titel “The Age of American Unreason”.