As Foreign Threats Loom, America Has Failed To Learn the Lessons of the September 11 Attacks

The truth is: We’re in much greater danger than we were before 9/11.

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First responders work at ground zero at New York City the day after the September 11, 2001, attacks. AP/Suzanne Plunkett, file

Like most Americans, I vividly remember where I was during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. I remember where Callista was, too. I recall how shocked, sad, and angry it made me. 

Yet as I listened this week to the various memorial services and observances, I found myself getting even angrier. 

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