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9/11 certainly changed the way Americans saw the world in a big way, but it didn't unleash that kind of unward-looking 'there could be terrorists anywhere' paranoia to a significant or lasting degree. If anything people got more fearful but less paranoid, becoming more accepting of institutional overreach than they were in the 90s. Terrorism was seen as an external threat. For example I'm almost certain that panel he uses is from a picture of the House Un-American Activities Committee, an example of 60s red scare paranoia that notably didn't repeat itself in the post 9/11 era.
Though rather than something to put on Ito this seems more like just Burbulis' own perspective coloring his reading, since it would make perfect sense for a Slav worried about people from the Caucasus region coming to do terrorism like the alleged 1999 bombings to apply that worldview to another country struck by terrorism in a major city.
