On the twenty-first anniversary of September 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have heard for the past several years on the anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history: “We will never forget, we will never give up. Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.”
That, of course, was rather ironic coming from the president who surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, the very people in charge of the country when Al Qaeda launched its attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It was President Biden who declared his own heroism as her ushered in the revitalization of Al Qaeda itself in Afghanistan; as The Washington Post noted in August, “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US goal was to deny al-Qaeda a haven in Afghanistan. Now, it is back – and seemingly safe.”
But none of this should be unexpected. Whatever lessons Americans learned on 9/11 have largely been forgotten one generation later.
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