Here is one of the most thoughtful essays I’ve seen so far. There are many memorable quotes, but I like this one:
these past events are the ultimate case of high tech vs. tools from the bronze age, wherein, our position as a world superpower did nothing to protect us from what amounts to a grassroots attack by modern-day knifemen.
and this one:
by now, we all know that u.s. foreign policy has had a hand in the grave issues tearing apart the middle east, including what america thought was the cost-free support of israel, and even the taliban themselves when we were trying to get rid of the russians occupying afghanistan during the cold war. we create monsters to get rid of monsters and that goes on ad infinitum in a vicious circle.