Historian Tony Judt, who taught at NYU, wrote an essay on the evening of 9/11. It was published in TNR (not available online). From memory, its opening: "This morning from my office window in downtown Manhattan, I saw the 21st century begin." The line has haunted me ever since.
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There are two dimensions: unilateralist v multilateralist and restrained v. aggressive. Bush senior was an aggressive multilateralist. Pre-9/11 GWB was a restrained unilateralist. Post-9/11 GWB was an aggressive unilateralist (who came to talk in moral terms about it).
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