When the next terrorist attacks come, will US presidents be able to channel public demand for revenge by precise targeting, explaining the trap that terrorists set, and focusing on creating resilience in US responses?
of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of the attacks have long since become a fact of life.
For years, the then president, Franklin D Roosevelt, had tried to alert Americans to the Axis threat but had failed to overcome isolationism. All that changed with Pearl Harbour. In the 2000 presidential election, George W Bush advocated a humble foreign policy and warned against the temptations of nation-building. . Given the proclivities of top members of his administration, some say a clash with Iraq’s then-dictator, Saddam Hussein, was predictable in any case, but not its manner or cost.
Terrorism can also be compared to jujitsu, in which a weak adversary turns the power of a larger player against itself. While the 9/11 attacks killed several thousand Americans, the “endless wars’’ that the US subsequently launched killed many more. The damage done by al-Qaeda pales in comparison to the damage America did to itself.
Leaving Afghanistan will allow Biden to focus on his grand strategy of balancing the rise of China. For all the damage done to US soft power by the chaotic manner of the exit from Afghanistan, Asia has its own long-standing balance of power in which countries like Japan, India, and Vietnam do not wish to be dominated by China and welcome an American presence.
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