Tony Benn on the immediate aftermath of 9.11 (Diary 13th September 2001)
22 Years On there are many analysis and views of 11th September 2001 but very few it seems (beyond those tragically directly caught up in it) about what the immediate impact was.
I’m not an end of days millenarian but I do recall wondering if things were going to go on much longer without a war given that capitalism is a system of perpetual crisis. There were wars of course but in a sense following the post-1945 model, by proxy. The war on terror took place in Afghanistan and Iraq not in the US or Europe.
Tony Benn captured well in a diary entry immediately after 9.11 what it felt like.
I don’t think we’ve quite taken on board this completely new world that has been created. The United States is going to go all out, possibly with NATO, to invade Afghanistan, try and kill Bin Laden…
….its a completely different world. Everything’s changed. Fears have increased, hope has diminished..
…A minor bit of news. Iain Duncan Smith has overwhelming beaten Ken Clarke for the leadership of the Tory Party
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