In January 2001, a bipartisan federal commission led by Senators Warren B. Rudman and Gary Hart published “New World Coming,” the first installment of a three-volume report on American security in the twenty-first century. Its warnings proved prescient. Challenged by the eruption of “long-suppressed nationalisms, ethnic or religious violence, humanitarian disasters, major catalytic regional crises, and the spread of dangerous weapons,” the U.S. military would eventually be unable to protect Americans from terrorist groups and rogue states in possession of weapons of mass destruction. “Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers,” the authors warned. In September of that year, the World Trade Center fell.
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