Two years later, University remembers Sept. 11 attacks
The United States is the world's superpower. But two years after Sept. 11, it still has a long way to go to resolve the issues brought up by the attacks, a panel of political experts concluded yesterday in front of a full audience in Dodds Auditorium.The panelists reflected on the subject ? "Two Years After 9/11: How Far Have We Come?" ? discussing the steps the United States should take to improve domestic and foreign security."[In 2002,] President Bush acknowledged that now America is most threatened not by invading states but by failing states," said Robert Orr '92, the executive director for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government."Never has this president been so right in what he said and never has he been so wrong in how he has implemented it," Orr added.Orr, who recently returned from an independent review of postwar Iraq at the request of Defense Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld '54, was joined on the panel by Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Wilson School dean; Christopher Eisgruber '83, a Wilson School professor specializing in law; and Christopher Kojm '79, deputy executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.The panel represented the intellectual part of the University's remembrance of the attacks.Orr spoke about faltering reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.