Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11

It’s clear we overreacted to 9/11.

Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single Full Story »

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David Agnew
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by David Agnew - Sep. 6, 2010

…the rise of this national-security state has entailed a vast expansion in the government’s powers that now touches every aspect of American life, even when seemingly unrelated to terrorism.

The only thing new here is that mainstream Newsweek is beginning to question unlimited spending on ever-more-inefficient bureaucracies of the ‘war (without end) on terror’. Many millions of Americans have been warning of this since the illegal invasion of Iraq in ’03.

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