{"id":2028427,"date":"2023-09-11T18:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remembering-9-11-reexamining-american-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:27:07","slug":"remembering-9-11-reexamining-american-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remembering-9-11-reexamining-american-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on 9\/11, Reevaluating US Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremembering-9-11-reexamining-american-foreign-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028427&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Remembering 9\/11: Lessons Learned and Reflections<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-rejects-9-11-defendants-plea-deal-conditions\/\" title=\"Biden denies plea deal terms from 9\/11 defendants.\">22nd\u2062 anniversary<\/a> of the 9\/11 \u2062attacks. So much has been written about this horrific day it is difficult to \u2063reflect upon \u200cit\u200c without merely repeating what others have\u2062 already said. \u200cBut sometimes repetition is necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the chasm of\u2062 time between that morning and today grows inexorably wider, we\u200d run\u200c a\u200b very real risk of\u2063 falling\u200c into a somnambulant sense of security. But if 9\/11 taught\u200b us one thing, it is that events so\u2064 significant as to send a hyper-power spinning off its axis tend to occur on the most ordinary of days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to work on the 55th floor of\u2062 Two World Trade Center. I can\u200c still recall the \u200dmagnificent views of all Manhattan below us, while Tower One, like a twin sentinel, seemed so close you could \u2062reach out and touch it. You really felt like\u2063 you were working in the epicenter of \u2063the world\u2019s economic engine up there. And, \u2063in a way, you were. I was\u2063 fortunate,\u200c as it turned out, to\u200c accept a job across the Hudson in Jersey City before the attacks. And\u2063 so,\u00a0my colleagues and I \u200bwatched from the\u2062 high floor of a skyscraper on the west bank of\u2063 the Hudson as the second aircraft, a UAL 767, hurling at\u200d eye-level with the throttle wide open, slammed into the second tower. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We soon evacuated our own building and made our way outside to \u200bthe pier along the river and\u200c watched as the hell unfolded. The surreal moment was made all the more\u2064 so by the clear azure sky that belied the sinister events unfolding \u2063beneath it. When the buildings came down, and those on the dock shrieked, cried, and gasped\u2064 a collective \u2063\u201cNo!\u201d, a \u2064co-worker said\u200c quietly, \u201cMy brothers are up there.\u201d They both died. Our former house attorney who\u2019d just a few months before excitedly accepted a job at Cantor-Fitzgerald, and had been trapped at the \u200ctop of \u200dTower One, was\u200c also dead. As were eight people from my small commuter\u200c town. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We feared for the life of my brother-in-law, a New York firefighter,\u200c but fortunately he\u200b was spared \u2014 \u200c348 of his fellow FDNY \u2064brothers were not. One can only imagine the PTSD\u200c he endured as\u2064 he donned\u2063 his\u2064 dress blues to attend \u2063funeral after funeral. These surviving firefighters should be\u2064 considered war veterans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My memories are fading now, and that is a healthy thing. One cannot dwell on terrible events. But at the same time,\u200b a nation can, and should, learn from them. And I think 9\/11 should prompt\u2063 us to reflect on some things about our country. \u2064Some are sublime, others not so \u2062much.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Lessons Learned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never underestimate\u2063 the\u2062 capacity of the American spirit to overcome daunting situations and\u2063 engage in acts of self-sacrifice for \u200bthe greater good.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reflect on the consequences of our national leaders&#8217; self-delusion and the need for a more\u2064 nuanced understanding of global issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recognize the importance of \u200cenergy independence to reduce vulnerability \u200dand the need for \u200bmilitary presence in\u200b volatile\u2062 regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acknowledge that\u200c while many in the world may harbor resentment or envy towards the United States,\u2062 it is crucial to address their concerns and listen to their perspectives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exercise our power responsibly and\u2062 be mindful of the unintended consequences of our actions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If \u2062this in any \u200cway sounds \u2063like\u200c a justification for\u2064 the events that \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/22-years-on-is-the-us-ready-for-a-next-big-attack\/\" title=\"Is the US prepared for another major attack after 22 years?\">occurred 22 years ago<\/a>, then you completely miss the \u2063point. Because \u2063what ultimately matters is\u200d do others justify it? And if so,\u200d then how do we make them no longer see the US in such a light? Given the fact that we are at it again, spending billions to prop up a losing campaign in a far off land against an old foe (one \u2064with a \u200dlot \u2063of nukes),\u200d I wonder if this less\u2064 appealing moral of 9\/11 \u200bwill ever \u2062be absorbed. If not, \u2062then we are in for more\u200d down the road. \u200cRemember, no one who woke up\u2063 that peaceful morning and breathed the\u2062 clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remembering-9-11-reexamining-american-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Reflecting on 9\/11, Reevaluating US Foreign Policy\">crisp late\u2063 summer air<\/a> could \u2062have \u200bimagined how the\u200d world would have changed by sundown. It\u2062 happens that fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States \u2062has both the blessing and curse of historically unprecedented \u200cpower. \u2062It must therefore be\u200b used \u2062wisely, deployed sparingly, and with \u2064the understanding that actions will have consequences if we are not\u2062 careful.\u200c Even\u2063 if \u200bthose consequences are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-subway-bomber-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-failed-2017-attack\/\" title=\"NYC Subway Bomber Sentenced To Life In Prison For Failed 2017 Attack\">cowardly acts<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">mass murder<\/a>, so long as cowardly mass murderers exist,\u2063 so too does the danger. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, we have a counterweight\u2063 here to the fools who\u2062 are running this nation into\u200c the ground. That is \u200ccalled the spirit of\u2063 the everyday American. A spirit \u2064we watched in real-time through countless\u200b acts\u2063 of heroism \u2064and self-sacrifice on that otherwise terrible morning.\u200d We saw\u2062 it in passengers taking down their \u2063own plane to\u2063 save the lives of others. We saw it in New York firefighters making \u2064their way\u200c up the smoke-clogged stairwells into danger and what many knew would be their last mission, while injured and bewildered\u2062 citizens were headed down\u2062 the other way to safety. We\u200c saw it in how Americans, Left and\u2062 Right, set aside their differences to join hands and express to the world with one voice: We Are Americans. We are a nation of \u200cgood people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet we still have the capacity, when pushed, to \u2062respond to such brazen affronts with a \u200csingle-minded fury that Yamamoto \u2064understood sixty years \u200dearlier, while orchestrating another \u2064surprise attack on our nation. We are still a \u201csleeping giant,\u201d\u200c not to be trifled with.\u2063 Indeed,\u2062 once we get rolling the only enemy \u2063who can defeat us is \u2064ourselves.\u2062 And \u2063that, perhaps,\u2062 is a lesson for \u2062the rest of the world to ponder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brad Schaeffer \u200cis a commodities trader, columnist, and author. His newest book\u200d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=brad+schaeffer+life+in+the+pits&#038;i=digital-text&#038;crid=24BKO06ZN7042&#038;sprefix=Life+In+The+Pits+%2Cdigital-text%2C103&#038;ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_17\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LIFE IN THE PITS: My \u200cTime As A Trader On The Rough-And-Tumble\u200c Exchange Floors <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">comes out\u2063 in December. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views \u200dexpressed in\u2063 this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent \u200bthose of The Daily\u2062 Wire. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 22nd anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks. With countless words already written about this tragic day, it&#8217;s hard to reflect without repeating others. Yet, sometimes repetition is vital. 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