Foreign Policy: After Corona recedes, do not repeat the mistakes of September 11, 2001

An article in the Foreign Policy magazine criticized the policy of US policymakers to deal with the Corona pandemic crisis, and saw that Washington's early options for responding to the pandemic were a repeat of the policies that marked the post-September 11, 2001 era.

The article’s authors saw Bert Rossenberg and Mark Hanna said that despite the nearly 20 years since the attacks of September 11, Americans are still living through the repercussions of the policies that were taken to respond to those attacks, which include endless wars, increasing global instability and the steady decline of American influence.

The authors note that the efforts of US officials to eliminate terrorism in the months and years following the attacks have turned the domestic and international policies of the United States into the worst.

They said that the devastation caused by the outbreak of the new Corona virus could eventually cause the United States to emerge from the shadow of September 11, and that US policymakers should remember lessons from the post-attack era so that they do not repeat them, if they really want to end that era and start With a new security model.

The authors also pointed out that the American people are fully aware of the violations committed in the post-September 11 era in the name of preserving its integrity, and that public discontent with the United States' foreign policy pursuit of unspecified goals transcends party ranks and causes generations to be divided.

They added that the veterans who have suffered the consequences of military adventures are also against these policies, as most now wish that the United States was less involved in foreign military conflicts.

The authors saw that the huge security apparatus on which America depended in the post-September 11, 2001 attacks failed to protect the people from the outbreak of the Coronavirus, and said that the tragic images of the bodies packed in the freezing trucks and buried in mass graves in New York, blatantly demonstrate inefficiency Washington's short-sighted political options.