February 12, 2006
This is interesting----Law in a Time of Emergency: States of Exception and the Temptations of 9/11 by Kim Lane Scheppele. it examines the domestic and foreign policy responses of the Bush administration to the events of 9/11, and contrasts them with the primary responses of America's democratic allies in Europe, with both sets of responses being understood through the lens of Carl Schmitt's writing on the nature of the state of exception. Scheppele says that Schmitt's texts provide a blueprint for contemporary American conceptions of emergency powers .
Tha tis how I have understood the conservative reaction to 9/11.
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