9/12: Reacting to crime by war(s): International and internal impacts of 9/11

Richard Falk; Daniel Falcone

doi:10.1386/jciaw_00054_1

ISSN: 2515-8538
E-ISSN: 2515-8546

9/12: Reacting to crime by war(s): International and internal impacts of 9/11
Authors: Richard Falk¹, Daniel Falcone²
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Affiliations: ¹ ISNI: 0000000419369676 University of California ² United Nations International School
Source: Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Volume 15, Issue 3, Sep 2021, p. 269 - 283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00054_1
Language: English
- Received: 23 Sep 2021
- Accepted: 08 Oct 2021
- Published online: 01 Sep 2021

Abstract

This article critically analyses the responses by the US Government to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon giving attention to the belligerent policies initiated on 9/12. Its main argument is that more damage was done to the American position in the world by what was done in the name of security in reaction to the attacks than the attacks themselves. The conclusion reached is that the unlearned lesson of the Vietnam War helps us understand the failed military interventions and state-building operations as tragically enacted in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Keyword(s): 9/11; 9/12; Afghanistan; counterterrorism; intervention; Osama Bin Laden; state-building

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