When I wrote "The Making of a 9/11 Republican" last year, I had no idea the column would come to define my political persona. The story of my journey from Marin County liberal to post-9/11 conservative columnist seemed to tap into something larger, a cultural and political phenomenon born out of the horror of Sept. 11, 2001.

It was indeed a pivotal moment in history and one that turned everything upside down and forced Americans to choose sides. And I chose to side with America, possibly for the first time in my life. In doing so, I parted ways with my former comrades on the left who were too consumed with hatred for this country and western civilization to join me. Instead, they went in the other direction, sympathizing with the most backward of ideologies in a desperate attempt to remain in the anti-American camp.

Thus was I catapulted into the ever more crowded realm of former leftists who ended up taking a right turn somewhere along the way.

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