Zimet -- A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest Dreams
A 9/11 survivor walks down New York City’s carnage-strewn streets Getty Images A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest Dreams Abby Zimet Sep 15, 2026 Along with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the “incalculable cost” of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed - the militarizing “beyond all sanity,” the othering of “everyone who isn’t ‘them,’” the lying, fear-mongering, inflicting of terror that’s left America hollowed out from forever wars now mostly against imaginary enemies within. The bleak consensus: There would be no Trump without 9/11, the senseless, self-defeating war on terror did not end, and it damn near did us in. The commemoration of 9/11 came hard on the tawdry heels of a pointless, “historic” midterm convention by a “staggeringly incompetent” dumpster fire of a GOP shameless enough to hoist “Never Forget” signs while forgetting or twisting beyond recognition what it was we vowed not to forget - our unity and humanity in the face ...
