21 years ago if America had paid heed to India’s warnings about Pakistan when the latter was creating the Taliban. Instead, America aided and continues to aid Pakistan, economically and militarily.
September 11 was merely the initial price for that ignorance and support of evil (Islam). The payments since, for Iraq and Afghanistan, the freedoms lost to things like the Patriot Act, seem to be in the range of what it takes to undo a (once) great nation.
The founders had prophesied, and warned.
Didn’t Madeleine Albright once say that the U.S. recognizes the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan?