The toxic legacy of 9/11

Absent an authentic national reckoning, a wound that never heals

Amid heavy criticism from normally compliant media organs charged with amplifying official regime propaganda, the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 was cursorily honored by President Joe Biden this afternoon during a two hour fueling stopover in Alaska on his return to Washington, DC from a G-20 summit in Vietnam.

Whatever one’s opinion of Mr. Biden’s tone deaf, deceptively somnolent presidency and his clichéd remarks in Anchorage today, every American should feel profound empathy for the families of the people who were killed on 9/11, from innocent office workers to bystanders to heroic first responders.

Yet it is impossible not to acknowledge as well a continued gnawing sense of the enormous damage done by the profoundly flawed decisions of US leaders in the wake of the horrific events of that infamous day.