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The 9/11 Attacks Ultimately Proved A Lesser Threat To America Than The Totalitarian Left
[THESEATONPOST] I was in college when the planes hit the towers, studying that Tuesday morning before class in the student union. The woman who ran the student snack bar and I were the only people there that morning, and together we watched the second plane hit on live TV. At that moment, my stomach dropped. After the first plane hit, no one really knew what was going on, whether a small aircraft had accidentally crashed into the tower or if it had been a kaboom or something else. But when that second plane hit, we knew. This wasn’t an accident. Someone had planned this. It was an attack. Suddenly, we were at war.In the months and years that followed, my classmates and I tried to wrap our minds around what we thought was coming: a generational struggle against jihadist networks that seemed to span the globe, that had even infiltrated the United States. We all read Samuel P. Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order." We all scoffed at Francis Fukuyama’s notion of the "end of history." We thought the United States was the only power capable of stamping out Islamic terrorism. We assumed there would be many more attacks on the homeland. Twenty years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, it’s safe to say they did not herald the defining, all-consuming civilizational struggle we had anticipated. The thing we most feared, Islamic terrorism, did not prove to be our worst enemy or the greatest threat to our republic. The greatest threat, we now know, has come from within — from an enemy who hates America and ordinary Americans at least as much as the 9/11 hijackers did, and for some of the same reasons. Posted by: Fred 2021-09-12 |
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