The Bush administration allowed the attacks to happen by indifference and incompetence and then used the American people’s fear to get what they wanted.
Correct. That single terrorist act has succeeded in ways Americans refuse to acknowledge. We allow the memorial of the event to create division, this last one being particularly divisive.
It’s all self inflicted at this point but I could see future historians crediting Bin Laden for seeding the fall of the empire.
The Bush administration allowed the attacks to happen by indifference and incompetence and then used the American people’s fear to get what they wanted.
Which turned out to be what bin Laden wanted
Correct. That single terrorist act has succeeded in ways Americans refuse to acknowledge. We allow the memorial of the event to create division, this last one being particularly divisive.
It’s all self inflicted at this point but I could see future historians crediting Bin Laden for seeding the fall of the empire.