Celebrating the Towers Themselves

Benjamin Wittes
Sunday, September 11, 2011, 8:37 AM
Unaccustomed as I am to praising the New York Times opinion pages for their handling of matters related to counterterrorism, my hat is off to them today for running as Op-Art this beautiful image, entitled "Exposure," by photographer Annie Leibovitz--the towers as I will always remember them. I think it is probably not fair use under copyright law for me to repost the image here. But check it out.

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Unaccustomed as I am to praising the New York Times opinion pages for their handling of matters related to counterterrorism, my hat is off to them today for running as Op-Art this beautiful image, entitled "Exposure," by photographer Annie Leibovitz--the towers as I will always remember them. I think it is probably not fair use under copyright law for me to repost the image here. But check it out. And if you want to include in your 9/11 remembrance the towers themselves, watching this remarkable movie--which never mentions September 11--is not a bad way to do it. Here's one of many stunning scenes:


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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