A Washington Post column marking the 25th anniversary of September 11 carries a remarkable subhead:
“There wasn’t another major attack in the U.S. But there wasn’t the reckoning that was needed either.”
Indeed. There was no reckoning. And 25 years later, there still hasn’t been one.
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But the Washington Post ought to examine its own role in that failure.
For decades, much of the establishment media has treated serious examination of the ideology, doctrines and objectives animating jihadist movements as something indecent to discuss. Those who insisted that the religious and political ideas invoked by the perpetrators themselves mattered were routinely dismissed as bigots, “racists” or “Islamophobes.”
The result was extraordinary: America spent trillions fighting jihadist organizations abroad while making an honest discussion of jihadist
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