Twenty-five years after 9/11, America still tolls the bells, reads the names, and performs the same ritual of national grief. But remembrance without reckoning has become theater.
From the Taliban’s return to Trump’s latest 9/11 self-mythologizing, iPINIONS suggests that the greater tribute to the dead would be learning from the folly committed in their name.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/911-at-25-time-to-end-americas-annual
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