9/11
Revisiting a 2001 article.
Jihadists are emboldened by U.S. withdrawals, and by new alliances.
The father of one of the terrorist mastermind’s victims speaks.
Anything done to the Jews in Israel will be justified.
The global jihadist threat has not degraded all on its own.
“You don’t understand, there isn’t going to be a visit.”
They got things wrong, and failed to learn from their mistakes.
The senator joins our foreign-policy columnist to talk about America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, and how the nation’s short memory imperils its security.
The victims were targeted as Americans. Why hasn’t that blunt and inescapable fact been placed at the center of our account twenty years later?
America has been learning and forgetting the lessons of 2001 for decades. It’s now in the midst of forgetting them again. Will the same result follow?
Fouad Ajami’s last book.
In this political passion play, America and Israel assume the role of Pharisees, hypocrites who promise freedom and democracy but deliver the golden calf.
It’s even expanded its reach.
From Thanksgiving to September 11.