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Rebutting the Claim That America Created ISIS and Every Other Enemy America made real mistakes in Iraq, but the claim that it manufactured ISIS and every other enemy erases the enemies' own ideas, choices and history. The Firefighters Who Climbed the Towers and the 343 Names the FDNY Still Reads The New York firefighters who climbed the stairs on September 11, the failures the Commission found and the later cost to responders, told with the 343 names. Flight 93 Passengers Voted to Fight Back and Saved a Target in Washington How the passengers and crew of United 93 learned by phone what had happened, decided to act and charged the cockpit, and why they stand with the Minutemen. September 11, 2001 Hour by Hour From the First Plane to the Last Rescue A timed account of September 11, 2001, drawn from the 9/11 Commission Report, from the hijackings to the collapses and the last survivor pulled from the rubble. Abbey Gate and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan, the Record in Order Thirteen American service members died at Abbey Gate in August 2021. A dated record from the Doha agreement to the last flight, with what each decision cost. The Patriot Act After Two Decades, Two Conservative Verdicts Compared Conservatives who passed the Patriot Act and conservatives who fought its renewal both invoke the Fourth Amendment. Each case, side by side, with the record. The 9/11 Commission Found a Failure of Imagination, Read Its Real Lessons The 2004 report is a bipartisan, readable record, and its lessons on walls between agencies still hold. What it found, and what Congress ignored. Bin Laden Declared War on America Twice Before Anyone Listened Al-Qaeda announced its war in 1996 and again in 1998, then attacked. A dated timeline from 1993 to September 11, 2001, drawn from the 9/11 Commission record. Terrorist Travel and the Visa Lessons the 9/11 Commission Laid Out The 9/11 attackers entered on visas and several broke their terms. The Commission showed immigration enforcement is counterterrorism; the work is unfinished. Beirut 1983 Was the First Lesson in How Iran Fights Through Proxies The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 Americans and introduced deniable war through Hezbollah, and how America left Lebanon taught its enemies a lesson. Sixty Words Passed in 2001 Still Carry America's Wars, and That Is a Problem The September 2001 war authorization was written for the 9/11 plotters and has been stretched far past them. The text, the votes, and the case for a new law. Boumediene v. Bush and the Day Habeas Corpus Reached Guantanamo Bay The 2008 five-to-four decision gave enemy detainees habeas review, and conservatives said it put judges in charge of a war. The text, dissents, aftermath.