4T = 9.11.01 -> 11.04.20

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-09-2020, 07:53 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Many around 2001 may have wanted a Crisis response to 9/11 but did not get it. I remember thinking that this was the Pearl Harbor incident of my lifetime. But 9/11, traumatic as it was, was a one-time event that could not have been repeated. The Pearl Harbor attack was part of a military campaign in which a Great Power sought to gain complete hegemony in the western Pacific basin from Alaska in the north to Tasmania and New Zealand in the south. How many divisions did al-Qaeda have? There would be no Crisis war. 

I agree that it was not a crisis war, but for a long time as soon as a division had recovered from a deployment it had to ready for another now. That filled the function usually of a crisis war, making us war averse likely for living memory, reluctant to put boots on the ground.