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America Has Forfeited Its Greatest Strength

Perhaps the most famous conclusion of the 9/11 Commission Report is that America’s inability to prevent the September 11 attacks resulted from a “failure of imagination.” With respect to the 9/11 Commission, that is not quite right. Long before September 11, members of the U.S. intelligence community understood the awful scale of Osama bin Laden’s ambitions. The presidential daily brief on August 6, 2001, included…