fbpx
Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program

Daily Round-Up: 9/11, China, and Imperial Folly

Tom Enghelhart says it’s time to bury the 9/11 rhetoric. While no one is discounting the tragedy of the attack, if we are to honor the memory of the victims, it’s time to stop exploiting their deaths for a reckless foreign policy and out-of-control defense spending. If September 11th was indeed a nightmare, 9/11 as […]

Tom Enghelhart says it’s time to bury the 9/11 rhetoric. While no one is discounting the tragedy of the attack, if we are to honor the memory of the victims, it’s time to stop exploiting their deaths for a reckless foreign policy and out-of-control defense spending.

If September 11th was indeed a nightmare, 9/11 as a memorial and Ground Zero as a “consecrated” place have turned out to be a blank check for the American war state, funding an endless trip to hell. They have helped lead us into fields of carnage that put the dead of 9/11 to shame.

Leon Hadar posits that the War on Terror is already over — and China won. Looking at a possible scenario for the future, Hadar envisions a globe dominated by Chinese influence, and heavily weakened U.S.

Indeed, in retrospect it does seem quite incredible that the nation that was the global superpower of that period seemed to have ignored China’s dramatic rise in economic, political, military, and cultural power while devoting almost its entire resources to trying to achieve regime changes and implant democracy in the Middle East.

Pat Buchanan asserts that the Presidency of George W. Bush has left chaos in its wake. After eight years of war, a legacy of heavy casualties, economic decline, and a malignant terror threat, some historical reflection is in order.

We won World War II and the Cold War. We did not win the post-Cold War era now ending. Looking back on the decade since 9/11, one appreciates Edmund Burke’s summary judgment of that generation of British leaders who lost the North American colonies.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Advertisement

Comments

The American Conservative Memberships
Become a Member today for a growing stake in the conservative movement.
Join here!
Join here