THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (David Brady) - Did Bin Laden Defeat America?
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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Did Bin Laden Defeat America? Preventing future blowback requires a foreign policy of peace. Photo by CNN via Getty Images On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes. Two of these were flown into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and the fourth—en route to Washington, D.C.—crashed in a Pennsylvania field after its passengers heroically overpowered the hijackers. All told, 2,977 Americans were killed on that day. Shortly thereafter, the Bush administration would launch the invasion of Afghanistan and begin laying…Open