No, the Post-9/11 Era Is Not Over
Ending the period requires decisive action, one reader writes, including closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
The 9/11 Era Is Over
In the bowels of the CIA, there is a sign that reads every day is september 12th.
“As a New Yorker who witnessed the 9/11 attacks, I once felt that way myself,” Ben Rhodes wrote earlier this month, “but by the time I saw the sign, during the second term of the Obama administration, it seemed to ignore all the things that our country had gotten wrong because of that mindset. Now, as COVID-19 has transformed the way that Americans live, and threatens to claim exponentially more lives than any terrorist has, it is time to finally end the chapter of our history that began on September 11, 2001.”
Ben Rhodes is right to acknowledge what many of us anticipated
