The "legal deconstruction" begins

"Bush Executive Powers in the Balance: Supreme Court Opinions Expected to Define Authority to Combat Terrorism," by Charles Lane, Washington Post, 2 May, p. A13.

We are reaching the end of the System Perturbation scenario known as 9/11, which is marked in the political realm by the legal deconstruction of both the event itself (the 9/11 Commission hearings) and the rules generated in its tumultuous aftermath (the Supreme Court begins rulings on post-9/11 legal changes).

In any System Perturbation, the society recovers quickly (the media was back to fluff within weeks), the economy recovers next most quickly (our leading indicators were up to snuff within 6 months), but the politics takes far longerómore than two years to settle into this deconstruction pattern. In general, the security realm recovers most slowly, but that process is being sped up thanks to Iraq, the war and peace that will eventually transform transformation beyond its progenitorsí wildest dreams.