September 11, 2006
Even before the dust of 9/11 had settled in Lower Manhattan, a new mission for America was being hazarded. Soon, philosopher Michael Ignatieff would call it Empire Lite — a superpower in denial about its imperial status but driven to placing its troops and assistance at the service of societies in the grip of authoritarianism. The agenda was to be nothing less than remaking the world by striking at the breeding conditions of terror. Five years on, dispatches from Ground Zero, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan show changes are painstakingly slow
September 11, 2006
