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...this tragedy must not prevent us from examining the way America has treated the world, and the way the world sees us, in the post-Cold War era. Terrorists are filled with uncompromising, blind rage, but their hate does not spring groundless from the sand of the desert. As human beings, we wish to divorce ourselves from these actions by thinking that such a disgusting attack can only be the work of brainwashed religious fanatics. And though religion may play a part, there cannot be any doubt that these terrorists hated America—including everything, and everyone, American?...
...real issue here is the mindset of the intelligence community - more specifically, the mindset of the post-cold war intelligence community, which I would characterize as juridical complacency. In other words, a mentality that forced intelligence agents to ask how well an action or appointment will stand up in a committee, or how it will look on paper. That?s opposed to the more archaic mindset, which was, who are the bad guys and how do we find them...
...clear objectives and a clear exit strategy. The question of the U.S.’s responsibility as a world power is one that the country has been wrestling with for much of the past century, and Halberstam pointedly places it in the context of the last decade. The post-Cold War world is one in which America rules alone, and its citizens don’t feel any great urge to pay attention to the rest of the world because danger—at least until a few weeks ago—seems far away. His conclusion?...
...their misery, many Afghans came to blame "the great American betrayal." They had fought on the front line of America's war; then America had walked away leaving them with a desolated country. The U.S., and the democratic West, did virtually nothing to reconstruct Afghanistan, too busy with post-cold war demands to pay attention to the needs of a landlocked, Texas-size country of 25 million tucked far away in Central Asia...
...their misery, many Afghans came to blame "the great American betrayal." They had fought on the front line of America's war; then America had walked away leaving them with a desolated country. The U.S., and the democratic West, did virtually nothing to reconstruct Afghanistan, too busy with post-cold war demands to pay attention to the needs of a landlocked, Texas-size country of 25 million tucked far away in Central Asia...