Post 9/11: Did bin Laden win?

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THERE was muted commemoration in the US and in its allies of the worst attack ever on American soil that totally destroyed the World Trade Center Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, killing 2,996 people. There were very few articles and opinion columns in US newspapers about it, several significantly even ruing that Americans seem to be forgetting the horrific event and its implications.

It was only Ben Kritz, an American colleague in this paper, who wrote about it the other day, in a bitter tone. He reported that his and a CNN broadcaster's comment as they watched live the towers burning was: 'Our world has forever changed.' Several paragraphs later, however, he writes: 'The only thing that has really changed is that everyone's execrable attitudes and behaviors have gotten a lot worse.

Iraq had not even started to build a nuclear fission plant, a requirement for building nuclear weapons.SOURCE: BROWN UNIVERSITY'S WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRSIraqIraq's invasion was in essence a nation's bloodlust in seeking vengeance for 9/11.

 

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