There's an unholy alliance of Islamic fundamentalists and naive anti-globalization protesters who would like to think that 9/11 was the death knell for an order based on free trade, political and economic liberty. I think that's profoundly wrong. And future historians will look back and say: In the wake of 9/11, the United States realized that it could not take for granted that the benefits of economic globalization would flow to it uninterrupted, and came to realize that there had to be some political underwriting of economic globalization; that it had to exert its military power in a more deliberate, perhaps a more overt, certainly a more self-confident way, if it was to deter aggression of the sort that produced the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon. For my money, this isn't a turning point away from globalization, but a turning point in which globalization will be reinforced politically, whereas previously it's been primarily an economic phenomenon.