Sunday, December 27, 2015

Is A New 9/11 Commission Needed?

Image: Wikimedia Commons/James Tourtellotte, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

James Jay Carafano, National Interest: Why a New 9/11 Commission Is Needed

Terrorism has come to look very different from what confronted the West over a decade ago.

Most ad hoc commissions come and go without a trace. Not so, the 9/11 Commission. Its final report became a national bestseller. Its findings served as the touchstone for explaining what happened on that dreadful day the terrorists went after New York City and Washington, D.C. Even more important, the report framed the argument of where the nation should go from here.

More than ten years have passed since then. Is it time to assemble another commission?

WNU Editor: Would such a commission make a difference? Considering how divided Washington and the American public is at the moment .... I doubt that producing a non-partisan report is even possible.

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