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 https://www.heritage.org/:The Heritage Foundation invites readers to explore the issues.  One page highlights the top issues, plus there are categories that list other other issues.  

The "front page", however, features a "leading issue".  For example, the current front page,or maybe it is just a guest column?  Anyway, it is a quick read on this date, written by James Jay Carafano, staff writer.  What if there had never been a 9/11?

It is Mr. Carafano's belief that funding from Russia was key in promoting the terrorist attack that for the most part, unexpected by the general populace.  The first World Trade Center bombing was so ineffectual that very few red flags were raised.  To read the rest of the article, please click on the link above.  What you will get from me, now, are some of my reactions to J.J.C.'s article:

• I am largely ignorant in matters of espionage and terrorism.  I know as much about the 9/11 attack as the average American knows;
• This being said, it sounds reasonable that what the article portends is probably correct.  Or at least believable.  
• In 1999, we have the Congressional Report Hart-Rudman, which was largely ignored.  It raised the topic of terrorist attacks in the homeland and if it had been taken seriously, we would have had a Homeland Security organization much sooner than we did.  Even that report didn't encompass the the theory of a "large building" attack.  
• Carafano also points out the concept  of
  transnational terrorism wasn't widely understood or maybe just wasn't considered, at that time? (previous to the 9/11 attack).  Read a supporting article about the Haqqani Network https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/know-your-enemy-meet-the-haqqani-network
• This network precipitated the formation of training camps being set up in Afghanistan by none other than 
  Osama bin Laden.
• I think that Carafano believes that it was the prescriptive withdrawal of troops, "a precipitive drawdown", in troubled areas that led to the continued training.  He says that Afghanistan may well become another Vietnam.

 This is concerning to me because President Trump has just ordered a further withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.  However, this same author (Carafano) is expressing his belief that we have gotten the upper hand there?  See https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/iraq-afghanistan-withdrawal-trump