Nicole Bacharan and the reach of September 11th

The newspaper invited 13 public figures to give their opinion on September 11th, among whom Nicole Bacharan, United States specialist. According to her, "the 11th of September is an historical event in the sense that it has changed the course of History. It is the date that marks the entry into the 21st century, just as the Sarajevo assault [The assassination of Archduke François-Ferdinand, June 28th, 1914] had marked the entry into the 20th century. It is above all the event that opened our eyes up to a danger that had existed for a long time although it had not been considered possible or desirable to measure its gravity: the Islamist terror, religious fanaticism, a new type of war. Other things have not changed. American society in particular, even if there is evident drifting on the side of the Bush administration".

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