9/11 at 25: Trump finds new targets for America's endless war on terror

9/11 at 25: Trump finds new targets for America's endless war on terror Submitted by Belen Fernandez on Wed, 09/09/2026 - 11:37 For a quarter century, the US has drone-struck weddings, abducted and tortured people at black sites and blown up fishermen, spreading terror in the name of fighting it A screen grab from video posted by US Southern Command shows a US strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific, in which the military said two people were killed, on 23 January 2026 (AFP photo/US Southern Command's X account/Handout) Off On 11 September 2001 , I was driving to work on the freeway in Austin, Texas when I heard the news on the radio that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As I went about nearly crashing my own car while trying to phone my best friend in New York City, I remember thinking that we were going to be hearing a lot about this particular date for a long time to come. Sure enough, a quarter of a century has now passed since 9/11, and the events of that day continue to shape daily existence in the US - as trite as it sounds to say it.