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At War II: Closing the Case.(Brief Article)
The commemorations of 9/11 ranged from the unbearably poignant, to the dutiful. Altogether, there were too many of them. But how could anyone expect Americans, especially journalists, not to mark the anniversary of the worst attack on our country perhaps ever, certainly since Pearl Harbor? The ceremonies were necessarily incomplete, however, because many of the enemies who attacked us on 9/11 are still out there, and the war against them and their backers and well-wishers continues.
Because it is a war of stops and starts, some people have reached, for an analogy, to the Phony War -- the early lull in World War II between the fall of Poland in the autumn of 1939 and the attack on Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and France in the spring of 1940. The classic satire of the Phony War is Evelyn Waugh's Put out More Flags, where the atmosphere of home-front jitters and pettiness is framed by the military and political predictions of two men, the young hero, Basil Seal, and his would-be mentor, Sir Joseph Mainwaring. Seal is the brash adventurer, always thinking outside the box; Sir Joseph is the voice of establishment opinion. Everything both men think turns out to be utterly mistaken.
But the first year of the Terror War has not been a Phony War, exactly. In an operation of stunning speed and elegance, the United States destroyed al-Qaeda's Taliban puppet state in Afghanistan. If Osama bin Laden has not been frog-marched through Kabul, or down Broadway, he has at least been displaced and may well be dead. Al-Jazeera, the Arab Pravda, broadcast a tape suggesting that he is still alive, but consider the source. That battle has been accompanied by a patient and thorough build-up of our assets in the region, with the help of allies both local (Turkey) and traditional (Britain).
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Source: HighBeam Research, At War II: Closing the Case.(Brief Article)