the anniversary of the september 11th attacks. and columnistsh this week reflected foreign policy. says that america overreacted to the events of that day and overestimated the strength of the enemy. nine years after, can anyone doubt that al qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? since that gruesome day in september 11th, they have bee been unable to launch a single attack. wall street foreign affairs column mist brent stevens, and matt kaminski join us, and brent, overreaction? that s probably not what prepare were saying after the nearly successful christmas
not because a single american has been kids on american soil by terrorists since 9-11, and because the policies work, we are able to have an open day bait. but you want to see overreaction, what happens it a nuclear bomb goes off in an american city or if a plane goes down. that s ultimately the threat, even if i it is imminent. which we don t thin is, but if that ever happened, that s the kind of thing tha would hae devastating impact for civil liberties. the american public would probably demand real, be potentially american changing policy. it s frightening, what would happen it there were a major terrorist attack on the contry, nuclear explosion, and it s why you have to have aggressiveu