Many people will trace the current events in the Middle East, and our involvement over the past decade-plus, to the incident that happened 13 years ago tomorrow: the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
But as much as an event like that causes ripples in society, the further away we get from it, the more those ripples appear to fade. For some young people, 9-11 is simply part of the fabric of America…