History of the War on Terror

The Brian Lehrer Show | 2 hours ago

As we approach the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Peter Bergen, national security analyst for CNN, a vice president at the New America Foundation and the author of All the Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror (WW Norton, 2026), reviews the history of the U.S. War on Terror.

Photo: UAF 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City during the September 11 attacks. Photo by:  Flickr user TheMachineStops (Robert J. Fisch) via Wikimedia Commons.
 

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