Twenty years on, the cultural fault-line remains

For the west, there are no "forever wars". For the Islamists, war is indeed forever

Second plane crashes into World Trade Centre south tower, September 11 2001

Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear that many westerners still don’t grasp the full nature and scope of what they witnessed when the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhatta…