What Lies Beneath: The Essence of Modern America in Somalia’s Blood-drenched Soil
(UPDATED BELOW) For days, weeks on end, we have been bombarded with earnest disquisitions on the “meaning” of 9/11, its implications for America and the world ten years down the line. Oceans of newsprint and blizzards of pixels have been expended on this question. But in all the solemn piety and savvy punditry surrounding the commemoration of the attacks, almost nothing has been said about the place where the true “legacy of 9/11” can be seen in its stark quintessence: Somalia. That long-broken land is, in so many ways, a hell of our own creation. Year by year, stage by