It’s been 22 years since 9/11. Yet still, the events of that day are central to the global upheaval now underway. In the wake of terror, our country’s leaders set out to establish a precedent, that the US would not tolerate an attack on US soil. For our national security, we needed to respond. But along the way, we trusted but did not verify, and we set many weak and dangerous precedents which only emboldened our enemies. These precedents continued for years, in spite of the good work of our countrymen who fought global terror to protect the homeland. Now, we are left with a decision to make: do we let our past mistakes define our future decisions? Do we let the perceptions of our choice to go into Iraq, or to prematurely pull out of Afghanistan, dictate whether we will do the right thing in Ukraine? Let's consider the wreckless withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan that cost us hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment, twenty years of a "democratic" reconstruction...
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