CHB: "to destroy the American way of life"

Today's quote is from the 6th paragraph of Doug Thompson's piece, "A painful decade comes to an end", from Capitol Hill Blue:

"Many feel Osama bin Laden’s goal was to destroy the American way of life. If so, he won that battle with the help of a despotic President and a willing Congress where Republicans and Democrats joined together to strip away American freedoms with the USA Patriot Act and creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a monolithic bureaucracy that fails to provide either security or freedom to the nation it fails to serve."

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A painful decade comes to an end