Fouad Ajami: 9/11 and the 'Good War' - WSJ

Those were not Afghans who had struck American soil on 9/11. They were Arabs. Their terrorism came out of the pathologies of Arab political life. Their financiers were Arabs, and so were those crowds in Cairo and Nablus and Amman that had winked at the terror and had seen those attacks as America getting its comeuppance on that terrible day. - Fouad Ajami: 9/11 and the 'Good War'

The Afghan Electoral Fix
Taliban Spreading In Afghanistan Despite U.S. Buildup - npr