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If metrication was meant to sync Australia with a globalising world, why have we persisted with our unique definition of a tablespoon?
Feb 18 2026
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Destruction is all postmodernism has ever offered. It has no positive agenda. It works only against, not for. Incapable of direction and purpose, finally it is fading
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The Ripples of 9/11
Victor Davis Hanson
Sep 09 2011
1 mins
Sunday will be the anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on the West, and historian Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the decade that followed them.
The Ripples of 9/11
Victor Davis Hanson
It has been a decade since 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11, 2001. Much of what followed in the subsequent ten years was unexpected, while what was expected did not happen.
On October 7, just 26 days after the attacks, the United States went after both al-Qaida and its Taliban sponsors when it invaded Afghanistan, removing the Islamists from that nation’s major cities in little more than two months. By early 2002, the “graveyard of empires” had a UN-approved constitutional government—despite earlier warnings of Western failure and a Soviet- or British-like disaster. We forget now the national euphoria over Donald Rumsfeld’s “light footprint” and a new way of war characterized by a few Special Forces troops with laptops who guided volleys of GPS munitions from jets…
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