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September 11, a quarter century

9/11: watching the planes hit

Gary Sick, a retired US Navy captain, was the principal White House aide for Persian Gulf affairs from 1976 to 1981, a period which included the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. More recently he has been Professor and Senior…

The day the West crashed and burned

September 11, 2001. I turned on the car radio. The BBC. Was it some kind of promotion for a new disaster thriller? No, it was 911! It took my wife and I a few moments to grasp the new reality we had just entered. The contrast was utterly…