# How 9/11 transformed US foreign policy over 25 years: Analysis

https://mins.news/en/video/55499

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-12 03:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXxebLnLZU

> Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, Richard Weitz looks back at the confusion that followed the first plane strike and the moment the scale of the assault became clear after the second plane hit and the Pentagon was attacked. He says the biggest lasting change has been Washington’s shift from the hopeful, domestically focused 1990s to an extraordinarily interventionist foreign policy.

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