National Security Sprawl

[Jara sang]

http://www.cartome.org/nss/Natsios-NSS.htm

National Security Sprawl
by Deborah Natsios

Birdstrike

Greater Washington DC's airspace offers strategic overviews of tangled metropolitan landscapes shaped by the exigencies of successive national security paradigms. In the hour before it crashed into the west façade of the Pentagon at 9:38AM on 11 September 2001, hijacked American Airlines flight 77 mapped a provocative trajectory above this complex domain, tracking national security landmarks embedded in one of the nation's fastest-growing urbanised formations 1. Within the hour, the capital region's snarled American-dream sprawl would be transformed into the unprecedented threatscape of the 'homeland'.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Man, she just lost me.

The loss started the second time she used a form of the word "paradigm", one of my most hated words in the language. A dense and florid writing style, way too precious.

I don't get lost easily, either.

Now, just what the hell was she on about? I could not grasp her ultimate point.

[Jara sang]

2. Commentary on "Fortress Washington".

How Flight 77 flew a tour over National Security infrastructure and struck the heart of it.