Shocked by the attacks of September 11, the US forced a new framework onto its still-unquestioned belief in the inexorable movement of history toward freedom. Unfortunately, what emerged was a deeply flawed approach, not least because in declaring a “war on terror,” America positioned itself against a tactic, not an entity or an ideology.
9·11袭击令美国震惊，于是强行在其仍未受质疑的通往自由的历史洪流思维上推出了新框架。不幸的是，随后出现的是有严重缺陷的方针，因为宣布“反恐战争”的美国的对立面是一套策略，而不是一个实体或一种意识形态。