I don't think the response of the United States to 9/11 was in any way ineffective. Hasn't anyone noticed that Islamic caliphatism has completely disappeared as a predicate for terrorism? Or imagined how the world would look if Sadam Hussein remained in power?
The real source for regret is the withdrawal - the refusal of Barack Obama to r…
I don't think the response of the United States to 9/11 was in any way ineffective. Hasn't anyone noticed that Islamic caliphatism has completely disappeared as a predicate for terrorism? Or imagined how the world would look if Sadam Hussein remained in power?
The real source for regret is the withdrawal - the refusal of Barack Obama to react to the promise of the Arab Spring, the abandonment of Afghanistan by American isolationists (Trump and Biden both).
George Packer remains the grandmaster of thinking within the box.
I don't think the response of the United States to 9/11 was in any way ineffective. Hasn't anyone noticed that Islamic caliphatism has completely disappeared as a predicate for terrorism? Or imagined how the world would look if Sadam Hussein remained in power?
The real source for regret is the withdrawal - the refusal of Barack Obama to react to the promise of the Arab Spring, the abandonment of Afghanistan by American isolationists (Trump and Biden both).
George Packer remains the grandmaster of thinking within the box.