You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative father was the first to ask me what exactly I would have suggested on September
What If We Never Fell for Al-Qaeda’s Trap & Avoided the ‘War on Terror’?
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”
— Thucydides