I didn’t watch any 9/11 tributes or documentaries. They would have simply reminded me of the fact that we are losing “the war”. The West learned nothing on 9/11 as Steyn so succinctly puts it.
It’s easier to see in retrospect.
The West would slam a few obvious rogues but then be way too nice and invite in far more rogues.
It has happened before too as in the World Wars.
A return in faith in a biblical God who is wise, who desires to be kind, but who can be very severe when it comes to removing obstacles, is the only thing that will lead the West out of ill considered military adventures.
It might not have been wrong to purge Iraq of Saddam Hussein, but it didn’t need a liberal democracy. A stern but benign kingdom would suit its people’s culture better. As the proverb goes, a rod for the back of a fool (which doesn’t need to mean cruelty, but only stern direction).