Why the lessons of 9/11 are wasted

‘No one seems aware any longer that there’s such a thing as a hostile external power that poses a graver threat to our existence than in-house systemic racism or micro-aggressions. In the Biden administration, our generals have been fixated not on international threats, or even on getting our troops safely out of Afghanistan, but on rooting out “white [hate] rage” in our own soldiers. Biden himself has encouraged our intelligence community to switch their focus from Islamist terrorism to domestic extremists on the right…..The lessons of 9/11 are wasted on us’ (Lionel Shriver - Telegraph U.K.)

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SW-User

An important lesson from 9/11 is that we shouldn't invade a nation that had nothing to do with an attack on our soil (Iraq) just because we needed someone to punish. We should've focused our efforts on Al-Qaeda and terrorist cells in other countries instead of toppling a secular dictator who, for better or for worse, was keeping religious extremists at bay. We also should've learned that in times of high emotion we're more susceptible to propaganda.

Sure, "micro-aggressions" area a ridiculous concept but this is just an oversimplification and a "culture war" appeal. There's plenty to learn from 9/11 and the mistakes made afterward, but it's not a matter of micro-aggressions and "critical race theory" or whatever the current boogeyman is.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User Also the Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laden. They later in the same year 0ffered a surrender. But in both cases Bush wanted to be a war president because in the US even being a war criminal is good for your political career. And even if you ignore all that Bin Laden has been dead for 10 years. What is the excuse for the other decade?