Just about everything has changed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC 10 years ago. The contours of the geopolitical and economic landscapes have been redrawn. The curious thing is how little the changes owe to 9/11.
This sounds counterintuitive after the tumult of the past decade. The US waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Violent Islamism transformed America’s view of the world, and the world’s view of America. Everything stood still for George W. Bush’s “war on terror” – or so it seemed. Al-Qaeda is still with us; so is Guantánamo.
