America’s longest war cost tens of thousands more lives than those taken on 9/11 and yet as its anniversary is being marked, the same pattern is being played out in regional “wars on terror” from West Africa to East Asia. With Afghanistan at a crossroads once again, other societies are mindful of their own nations’ simmering divisions.
9/11, twenty years on: Political leadership need not involve ‘waging war’ on today’s perceived terror threats
