Sept 11 didn't change the world forever'Changed the world forever' is the most hackneyed phrase in journalism, and if you can get through this week (the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks) without hearing it half a dozen times you'll be very lucky. With the benefit of hindsight, how much has the world changed as a result of Sept 11? So there were really no big changes in the Arab world as a result of Sept 11, and that goes for the rest of the Middle East too. But most of those deaths were "collateral damage", and the US military-industrial-academic complex would almost certainly have found other excuses for that scale of spending if Sept 11 hadn't happened. Did the world change forever?

Source: Bangkok Post September 10, 2021 22:07 UTC