Mark Steyn has a sober column on the anniversary of 9-11: "The Years We Wasted." Here’s his opener:
For most of the last two decades we
have observed the anniversary of 9/11 by re-posting my columns from the first
few days of the new era. We ceased to do so after September 11th 2017 when
"a president who, on the campaign trail, mocked his predecessor's
inability to use the words 'radical Islam' himself eschewed
all mention of the I-word" - and a defense secretary laughably hyped
as Mad Dog Mattis turned out to be just another dribbler from the Washington
Generals and retreated to the madrassah wing of the Pentagon to explain that it
was all just a theological misunderstanding.
We shall not resume our anniversary
observances today. The war is lost, at home and abroad. . . .
The position of the United States
is far weaker than it was twenty years ago. Around the planet, the assumption
of friends and enemies alike is that the American moment is over and the future
belongs elsewhere. They are making their dispositions accordingly. It is not a
question of wishing "the post-American world", but of accepting the
known facts.
Mark’s full column is here.
It is short, and it is brutal.
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