Ground Zero mosque

It’s been nine long years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but this period was apparently not enough for most Americans to come to terms with this trauma, mostly because of the George W. Bush administration’s wars of revenge, which were just as traumatic as these attacks.

We’ve even seen people who claimed that the US organized the attacks itself to justify these wars. Even though these are nothing more than conspiracy theories, it is true that Bush widely exploited the Sept. 11 attacks to defend the justness of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The underlying reasons, the legality and the legitimacy of the US’s engagements in these countries are still open to debate; however, another question is now more important: Is the present situation a success for the US?Read More