“While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. And while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
So said Joe Biden on his recent visit to Israel. But the US president did not elaborate in public on the mistakes that America made. So what were they?
Broadly speaking, the US attempted to defeat “terrorism” through conventional military means. It launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. But more than 20 years after starting its war on terror, America is probably less powerful and respected around the world than it was in 2001. And its own society has been gravely wounded.
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