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by John R. Bolton • September 11,
2017 at 7:00 am
The names
of passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, who lost their
lives in the September 11 attacks, as displayed at the National
9/11 Memorial in New York. (Image source: Luigi Novi/Wikimedia
Commons)
Today marks the 16th anniversary of al-Qaida's 9/11
attacks. We learned much that tragic day, at enormous human and
material cost. Perilously, however, America has already forgotten
many of Sept. 11's lessons.
The radical Islamicist ideology manifested that day
has neither receded nor "moderated" as many naive
Westerners predicted. Neither has the ideology's hatred for America
or its inclination to conduct terrorist attacks. Iran's 1979
Islamic Revolution brought radical Islam to the contemporary
world's attention, and it is no less malevolent today than when it
seized our Tehran embassy, holding U.S. diplomats hostage for 444
days.
The Taliban, which provided al-Qaida sanctuary to
prepare the 9/11 attacks, threaten to retake control in
Afghanistan. Al-Qaida persists and may even be growing worldwide.
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