Little noticed so far, Wednesday marks the 12th anniversary of 9/11. On that sense-shattering day in 2001, it seemed that nothing would ever be the same again, that we would never get over it. The destruction of the Twin Towers forced us to confront a geopolitical landscape shaped by interconnected terror groups, rogue states, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Yet we underrated our collective capacity to forget, to resume bad habits, to park, postpone and otherwise ignore new and difficult questions.
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