The invasion and occupation of Iraq quickly unraveled the unity Americans found after 9-11.

We discuss what happened and what we can learn from it.

This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right.

You're listening to Pantsy Politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsy Politics.

We are here continuing our series on 9-11.

As we begin to tackle the post 9-11 world, we are recording on Saturday due to the holiday weekend.

So we're not going to tackle any major news.

We're going to skip right to our gratitude section and then focus on the 9-11 series.

We'll figure that will take a while.

And because it's been I hate to slay slow news because the second we say that,

we'll have to come on here and be like,

Breaky News, but for now we're going to focus on gratitude and continue our 9-11 series.

Well, we know that four days is basically four years in the way that a lot of our news operates today.

So it'll be a different landscape by Tuesday.

I will tell you what I am grateful for, Sarah.

I am so happy that so many journalists are tackling the complexity of our attempts to counteract the opioid epidemic.

I think there have been some really wonderful pieces talking about how,

okay, we really care about this.

It's a huge crisis.

And a lot of what we're doing is backfiring.

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