Another humiliating taunt came this week. The only person the United States has managed to catch and convict over the events of September 11, 2001, had nothing to do with it, according the man who organised the evil acts: Osama bin Laden.
How could the US, with all of its power and wealth, have so comprehensively bungled its response to September 11? How could it have gone from having the sympathy of nearly the whole world to being reviled by much of it? By invading Iraq.
The US now has an impossible condundrum in Iraq: it says it will not leave until the country is secure and peaceful. But the country will never be secure and peaceful until it does leave.
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