Have We Learned Nothing Since 9/11?
Have We Learned Nothing Since 9/11?
By Mike McManus
Sept. 8, 2011
In these days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I keep scratching my head and wondering if we have learned anything about our enemy.
Fanatical Muslims who focused more on their faith than their own lives, led by Osama bin Laden, achieved those spectacular plane crashes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and another was likely targeting the Capitol where my son was working that fateful day.
It was a brilliant terrorist act, striking terror into the American heart. First we feared that there would be more 9/11s, and created an enormous "War on Terror" to counteract any such possibilities. That was both wise and surprisingly successful. There has not been even a minor follow-up act, not even a successful car bombing.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
Sept. 8, 2011
In these days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I keep scratching my head and wondering if we have learned anything about our enemy.
Fanatical Muslims who focused more on their faith than their own lives, led by Osama bin Laden, achieved those spectacular plane crashes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and another was likely targeting the Capitol where my son was working that fateful day.
It was a brilliant terrorist act, striking terror into the American heart. First we feared that there would be more 9/11s, and created an enormous "War on Terror" to counteract any such possibilities. That was both wise and surprisingly successful. There has not been even a minor follow-up act, not even a successful car bombing.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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