September 8, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
After the massive violence and killings of the past decade — in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also in Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere — the tenth anniversary of 9/11 next Sunday might be a suitable moment to take stock. A good place to start might be to try to understand the motives of the men who flew the hijacked planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Why did Muhammad Atta and his al-Qaida colleagues feel such intense hatred for America that they were prepared to sacrifice their lives in order to punish it? The American response to the devastating attacks on its heartland was, alas, wholly predictable. The trauma was so painful that the overwhelming instinct of most…
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