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I like to put it slightly differently: 9/11 was the most successful terrorist attack in modern history. We are still running scared.
by jameskilton 3y ago
I like to put it slightly differently:
9/11 was the most successful terrorist attack in modern history. We are still running scared.
- nyokodo 3y ago> We are still running scared. Not as compared to 9/11 through ~2017. America has largely returned to the geopolitical indifference it had in the 1990s but with much greater exhaustion for direct foreign military intervention and cynicism about strategic alliances.
- asdff 3y agoForeign policy wise the ship never was off course at all from the doctrine its had for decades. In terms of the American people though, its obvious how the event has severely damaged us both in terms of how we think about our fellow people, and the sort of restrictions and surveillance we have imposed on ourselves in the name of safety since.
- pydry 3y agoIt certainly fulfilled its objective of pulling the US into an unwinnable war in Afghanistan the "graveyard of empires".