The Bin Laden Decade

Visiting the Middle East last week, and then coming back to Washington, I am left with one overriding impression: Bin Laden really did a number on all of us.

Thomas L. Friedman

I am talking in particular about the Arab states, America and Israel ? all of whom have deeper holes than ever to dig out of thanks to the Bin Laden decade, 2001 to 2011, and all of whom have less political authority than ever to make the hard decisions needed to get out of the holes.

Let?s start with the Arabs. In 2001, Osama bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Just a few months later, in 2002, the U.N. issued the ?Arab Human Development Report,? which described the very pathologies that produced Al...

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Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/01/the_bin_laden_decade_256426.html

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