The Australian

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York and Washington led to a remarkably unanimous response, not just from the West but also from the entire international community.

For the only time in its history, NATO invoked the principle of collective defence enshrined in Article 5 of its founding treaty. This guarantees that the alliance will respond to an armed attack on one of its members.

... Evgeny Morozov's chapter in The Next Digital Decade and, more particularly, Morozov's book The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World (2010), provide another perspective on this debate. Morozov, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, ...

Al-Qa'ida expert Peter Bergen said the official US history of the war confirmed bin Laden had been at Tora Bora. Bush said he wanted bin Laden "dead or alive". As commander-in-chief, he allowed bin Laden to escape the posse. ...

In 2006, author Peter Bergen wrote that bin Laden had told him he would never be taken alive, that his bodyguard had orders to kill him if it looked as if he were about to be captured. There were reports about his kidney problems and in September 2006 ...

"Today, Reagan is the flavour of the decade," said Steve Clemons, publisher of The Washington Note, a political website. "He was a transformational president whose leadership style made Americans forget about high interest rates and the humiliation that came from the Iran hostage crisis and rather to become swept up in a campaign about national greatness. That's why they are fighting today over his legacy." ...

As Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist Steve Coll wrote in his history, Ghost Wars: "Muslim Brotherhood members believed that the only way to return the Islamic world to its rightful place of economic and political power was through a rigid adherence to core Islamic principles. ...

The report, co-authored by terrorism specialists Bruce Hoffman and Peter Bergen, says the threat posed by al-Qa'ida and its allies is less severe today than ...

Peter Beinart grew up in a classic small-l liberal American environment. His parents, South African emigres, were academics and the family lived in the university town of Cambridge in Boston's suburbs. ...

"What Gibbs was expressing was truthful, but from the political viewpoint (it) was devastating," said political blogger Steve Clemons. "What kind of message ...

Then, last month, came an essay from Peter Beinart, the former New Republic editor, in The New York Review of Books, called The Failure of the ...