AKMA this morning has a well articulated and right-on assesment of the “War on Terror”. 

AKMA’s Random Thoughts
Our response to terrorist attacks should always be, “How can we conduct our collective affairs in such a way as to make terrorism pointless?” Saber-rattling coercive politics positively invites persistent attacks; it challenges terrorists to beat us at the game of destruction. In such a game, the terrorists always hold the advantage of surprise; it’s a lot easier to outmaneuver a monolith than for the monolith to devise preventive measures against any possible mode of attack (as our belated, retrospective gestures demonstrate).
At this point, the number of deaths after the terrorist attacks outnumbers the deaths on that date by a factor of, what? 10? The U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have not disabled Al-Qaeda; neither Afghanistan nor Iraq has a peaceful, benign, democratically-elected government; the U.S. population does not live in a higher degree of peace and security than it did on September 10, 2001. Thousands of military families, and tens of thousands of Iraqi families, bear the long-term costs of a misbegotten and failed policy.
I’m not afraid of Al-Qaeda; I am afraid that U.S. efforts to dominate the world are inadvertently advancing the cause of fear and terror, and are corroding the political ecology in which the ideals for which the Constitution and Bill of Rights represent an admirable, hopeful, ideal.

With nothing but hubris and arrogance for our responses,  9/11 has been turned into an escalation of the disaster that was the Airline attacks.  There seems to be no awareness of the cuases or effects; only machismo and assertions of how we “won’t stand for it”.  I can think of no better representatives of an AntiChrist than of such nations as ours , who wield such power and influence,  spreading death and positing justifications for these deaths under the rubric of their inane appeals to “freedom and liberty”.