However one defines victory, America and the free world assuredly lost.
The Twin Towers are shown in flames after hijacked planes crashed into them on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Jason Nevader/WireImage)
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Twenty-five years ago, a clutch of madmen murdered some 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Oceans of ink have been spilled to understand their particular brand of deluded apocalypticism. It goes by fancy names like “Salafi jihadism” and “restoring the caliphate.” But who can doubt their most primal impulse?
