The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States is an opportune time to reflect on the enduring consequences of that event and how the world has changed over the past decade, and speculate about what lies ahead. To mark the anniversary, Business Monitor Online last week published a special feature discussing… [Read more]
It is now nine years since the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, and in recent years, I have used this occasion to comment on the state of the ‘War on Terror’ – a phrase that is heard less often these days. This year, the anniversary has been marred by plans by a very obscure American pastor, Terry… [Read more]
Eight years after the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, the outcome of the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ is still inconclusive. Overall, I have not really changed my view from the blog post I wrote on the seventh anniversary. Neither ‘the West’ and its allied governments nor al-Qaeda and its offshoots have scored a decisive blow. In any… [Read more]
As we mark the seventh anniversary of the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, the only real conclusion I have is that the outcome of the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ is inconclusive. Part of the confusion stems from the fact that it is not clear what ‘victory’ is. For the West, is victory merely preventing further terror attacks,… [Read more]