Mr. Right: 9/11 a reminder of America's repeated failure
Sep. 9, 2007Our generation is the 9/11 generation, the generation that has been shaped by the horrific events that unfolded six years ago tomorrow. Although we may still go about our daily lives doing the million ordinary things that college students do, 9/11 changed us. Not since Vietnam has a generation been so concerned with foreign policy. To be sure, this concern is expressed in different ways: for some, it means enlisting in the military; for others, it means joining the anti-war movement; and for still others, it means something in between. Yet the fact remains that ours is a generation preoccupied with foreign policy, and rightfully so: elements of our foreign policy were used by the 9/11 terrorists to justify the unjustifiable, and flaws in our foreign policy during the 1990s permitted global terrorism to grow exponentially.
