25 Years Later, Did 9/11 Achieve Its Goals?
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Matt Bai marks 25 years since 9/11 and argues that while Osama bin Laden failed to win a conventional war, the attacks may have destabilized American politics and liberal democracy by fueling fear, anti-immigrant backlash, and a lasting security state that helped propel Trump and deepen polarization. He contrasts Obama’s defense of civil liberties with today’s climate and suggests the War on Terror reshaped U.S. society in ways that some view as a terrorist ‘win.’
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- A Quarter Century of Pain theatlantic.com
- The U.S. Was Never Going to Win the “War on Terror” The New Yorker
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