🇺🇸 Episode 11 – The Aftershock of 9/11: America’s Long War and Lost Trust In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Americans stood united. That unity was squandered. Civilian and military leadership choices launched two decades of foreign wars, expanded the intelligence community, and shifted the balance between national security and our constitutional rights. The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 revealed the full measure of that failure America spent two decades losing two post-9/11