Folly taken to a scale we haven't seen since WWII

September 11 > legacy
by Robert Fisk. Excerpt:
...The future of the Middle East - which is what 11 September was partly about, though we are not allowed to say so - has never looked bleaker or more bloody. The United States and Britain are trapped in a war of their own making, responsible for their own appalling predicament but responsible, too, for the lives of thousands of innocent human beings - cut to pieces by American bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq, shot down in the streets of Iraq by trigger-happy GIs.
Also form Slate: What You Think You Know About Sept. 11… but don't.