America has learnt little from the War on Terror

The catastrophic case of the Foreign Affairs’ analysis

In “Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success,” Foreign Affairs tries to detail the rise and fall of terrorist Islamist groups but ends up losing the context and committing a series of anachronisms.

The article says that Al-Qaeda’s founder, Osama Bin Laden, was scheming to attack America as far back as 1986, and that the late terrorist cited the situation of Pale…