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Andrew Bacevich<\/a>,\u00a0Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/a> at Boston University, was the premier guest on\u00a0BU Today<\/em>‘s new podcast<\/a> “Question of the Week,” on which he discussed the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States<\/span><\/p>\n In the episode, BU Today <\/em>asks Bacevich: 20 years after 9\/11, is the U.S more or less vulnerable to another attack? He remarks on the state of American security and President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pull troops from Afghanistan. In his comments, Bacevich noted that, \u201cwe are less vulnerable to terrorism; we are far more vulnerable to threats that actually are far more dangerous than terrorism,\u201d such as climate change. The Cold War had shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades and there was an assumption in the U.S. that it had “won,” so “when that danger appeared on 9\/11, it came as not simply a surprise, but a shock to the system, because the events of 9\/11 seem to refute what we understood to be the implications of the Cold War ending as it had ended.” Listen to the full podcast below.<\/p>\n
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