John Bolton: America’s Learned Little From September 11 Terrorism

By Geller Report Staff

 

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said America, post-September 11 terror attacks, has failed to put into practice lessons that should have been learned — lessons about the truths of radical Islam, terror and national security.

In a piece for the Gatestone Institute, Bolton said radical Islamism has hardly faded and disappeared from the world stage.

In fact — it’s grown and spread, due in large part to the West’s utter failure to recognize truths, admit them and act accordingly.

Here’s what he wrote, in Gatestone:

Today marks the 16th anniversary of al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks. We learned much that tragic day, at enormous human and material cost. Perilously, however, America has already forgotten many of Sept. 11’s lessons.

The radical Islamicist ideology manifested that day has neither receded nor “moderated” as many naive Westerners predicted. Neither has the ideology’s hatred for America or its inclination to conduct terrorist attacks. Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution brought radical Islam to the contemporary world’s attention, and it is no less malevolent today than when it seized our Tehran embassy, holding U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days.

The Taliban, which provided al-Qaida sanctuary to prepare the 9/11 attacks, threaten to retake control in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida persists and may even be growing worldwide.

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