Foreword, when is a homeland not a homeland?

[Malignd]

<<Hence the juxtaposition I referred to previously,
between "neighbourhoods" (the localities that give us
an identity in our everyday lives) and "borders", the
artificial construct of the nation state that gives us
a different, more abstract, kind of identity - the
imagined community (see for example Benedict
Anderson's book of the 
same title). In this speech Bush invokes the imagined
community to persuade his listeners that "federal
employees" should be empowered to act on their
behalf.>>

Loath as I am to defend Bush's rhetoric, the more
obvious linking of community and nation is that (a) it
is on the basis of our perceived nationhood that
ordinary citizens were killed on September 11, on
their jobs, in their neighborhoods.  

The linking of the macro and micro is, arguably, the
essence of terrorism.
 

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