Bin Laden Made News, Not History
While the fight against Al Qaeda has made us safer, it also became an enforced detour from the vital diplomatic task of building new rules and institutions for an interdependent world. In a world of asymmetric threats, politics require primacy.
LONDON – Ten years after 9/11, the instant history is being written. In the French newspaper Le Monde, a highly intelligent commemorative supplement dubbed the period “The Decade of Bin Laden.” But is that right?
LONDON – Ten years after 9/11, the instant history is being written. In the French newspaper Le Monde, a highly intelligent commemorative supplement dubbed the period “The Decade of Bin Laden.” But is that right?