The Year 1919 Or 1920

Nine years after 9/11, George Packer looks at the path we've taken since:

Crazy,murderous violence hasn't spread across the land. But unreason, cheeredon by cable news, has won the day. We have undeniably gone sour oninterfaith tolerance. We have turned inward in sullen exhaustion. Thestaggering chain of consequences and characters that followed9/11—Kabul, Tora Bora, Daniel Pearl, John Yoo, Bagram, Guantánamo,Baghdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Madrid, Falluja, Abu Ghraib, NickBerg, London...