September 11 led US to launch 25 years of ‘failed war at enormous cost’
Reflecting on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, journalist Peter Hartcher discusses the global impact and the long-term costs of the subsequent wars. The piece examines the decision-making process that led Australia to join the US-led conflict in Afghanistan.
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It provides a retrospective analysis of the geopolitical consequences and the 'failed' nature of the two-decade war following the 9/11 attacks.
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Share A A A On September 11, 2001, Peter Hartcher was living outside Washington, DC. It was a regular Tuesday for the then-foreign correspondent, who had sent his children to school as normal and planned to spend the day reporting on then-prime minister John Howard’s visit to the US capital .
Howard had travelled from Australia for what was meant to be an uneventful commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty – until two planes struck New York’s World Trade Centre towers, and one struck the Pentagon, in what remains the deadliest act of terrorism in modern history .
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