This article was originally published in TIA Daily. Welcome to the post-9/11 era. Ten years later, the terrorist attacks of September 11 are no longer the defining events of American politics and foreign policy. I do not mean by this what most of the political establishment means by it. They think they have gotten beyond September 11 by proclaiming that we now know, in retrospect, that we "over-reacted" to the attacks and that vigorous and aggressive action in the world—particularly the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—have proved futile, demonstrating once again the wisdom of passive, status quo, "leading from behind" multilateralism.
The Post-9/11 Era
The Post-9/11 Era
The Post-9/11 Era
This article was originally published in TIA Daily. Welcome to the post-9/11 era. Ten years later, the terrorist attacks of September 11 are no longer the defining events of American politics and foreign policy. I do not mean by this what most of the political establishment means by it. They think they have gotten beyond September 11 by proclaiming that we now know, in retrospect, that we "over-reacted" to the attacks and that vigorous and aggressive action in the world—particularly the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—have proved futile, demonstrating once again the wisdom of passive, status quo, "leading from behind" multilateralism.