America’s Response to 9/11: Looking Back on 20 Years of Foreign Policy
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The Cost of Self-Censorship in Europe
20 years after 9-11 there is a climate particularly in Europe but also North America way it's become a risk to one's life and reputation to speak about Islam. The Danish cartoons crisis which erupted in 2005, 2006 was a test of how bad is the self-censorship in Europe that turned out to be really bad. Yale University Press is afraid to publish a scholarly book about the Danish cartoons crisis with the books in it because of the risk of harm to the people involved. A lot of these failures were compounding failures they built upon each other mistake upon mistakes I have very dim views about the Bush administration's approach to Iraq and the surge.
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