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...Legacy of 9/11 "The Nation that Fell to Earth" [sept. 11], Niall Ferguson's fast-forward history of 9/11 from the vantage point of 2036, neglected to mention that the Iraq invasion was illegal and that, as a consequence, George W. Bush is a war criminal. Ferguson also left out Abu Ghraib, the killings at Haditha and the concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay. When people look back on this decade, they will see that Bush and the neoconservatives destroyed the ability of the U.S. to champion human rights, freedom and democracy and made it morally bankrupt. John Devere...
...Ferguson's story overlooked the U.S. government's likely adverse reaction to the ascent of Iran, Russia and China. Will the U.S. be able to recognize and accept that democracy and freedom as interpreted by those new global powers will be significantly different from those of Western models? And will the U.S. really be willing to share power in a way it has never done before? Lee Ah Chai Singapore...
...Nation That Fell to Earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that if the U.S. is to remain politically and economically strong, it must focus on more than fighting global terrorism. My only disappointment with Ferguson's article was in his dismissal of the problem of climate change. Global warming has the potential to reshape the geopolitical landscape and cannot be ignored. Katherine Richardson Christensen Arhus, Denmark...
...Niall Ferguson leaves some important things unsaid in his backward look from 2031. Large, well-educated Muslim populations around the globe support democracy and would like, with or without America's war for it, to see it take sustainable roots in their nations. But many of them are not attracted to the cultural-economic box in which the sponsored democracy comes packaged. Only a few world leaders have had the courage to go straight to the heart of the matter: the birth and intensity of this century's irrational militancy has less to do with the absence of democracy than...
...Changing the Middle East Calling Max Boot's "Second Opinion" rebuttal of Ferguson's story an example of straw-man argumentation would be an insult to straw men everywhere [Sept. 11]. No credible analyst of the Middle East believes that democracy is not preferable to the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism. The debate is over tactics. Perhaps the only human attribute more powerful than the yearning for democracy is the loathing of political change wrought at gunpoint. Boot's signal example of democracy's triumph over tyranny is the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But that victory was not achieved...