A Decade of Surprises in the War on Terror

Victor Davis Hanson, City Jrnl
It has been a decade since 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11, 2001. Much of what followed in the subsequent ten years was unexpected, while what was expected did not happen.On October 7, just 26 days after the attacks, the United States went after both al-Qaida and its Taliban sponsors when it invaded Afghanistan, removing the Islamists from that nation’s major cities in little more than two months. By early 2002, the “graveyard of empires” had a UN-approved constitutional government—despite earlier warnings of Western failure and a Soviet-...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/07/a_decade_of_surprises_in_the_war_on_terror_263013.html

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