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Lessons Unlearned After 911 | Auckland News
Twenty-five years after 9/11, former NZ PM Helen Clark reflects on how the world’s response went off track—starting with her own shock at the attacks while in Hong Kong, leading her to rush home. She backed the Afghanistan intervention but fiercely opposed the Iraq War, calling it a catastrophic error fueled by false claims about WMDs and costing hundreds of thousands of lives. Clark warns today’s justifications for military action against Iran echo those failures, urging nations to demand ironclad proof before striking. The fallout? Global ripple effects—from food prices to living costs—in…
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