美国政治

Leaders lament lost sense of unity as America marks 9/11 two decades on

Presidents past and present commemorate anniversary of terrorist attacks at time of political polarisation

Americans gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Saturday as US leaders past and present invoked the urgent need for unity at a time of domestic division.

George W Bush, who was Republican president at the time of the 2001 attacks, compared domestic violent extremism to “children of the same foul spirit” as the al-Qaeda attackers.

“[I]t is our continuing duty to confront them,” he said at the crash site of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, where passengers overwhelmed jihadi hijackers and prevented an attack on the US Capitol.

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