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title: "Read This: The Lost Decade"
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# [Read This: The Lost Decade](https://www.yell.is/blog/2011/11/09/read-this-the-lost-decade)

 Written by [Nathanael Yellis](https://www.yell.is/blog/author/nathanael-yellis) | November, 9 2011

Thanks to my friend and colleague [David Azerrad](http://blog.heritage.org/author/dazerrad/), I have a print copy of the most recent *[Claremont Review of Books](http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/). The Lost Decade* is masterful, a thorough understanding of our most recent decade and the choice facing America now. I strongly recommend [it](http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1878/article_detail.asp#) to those thinking politically:

> At home, the American people are less free, less prosperous, more bitterly divided, and much less hopeful in 2011 than in 2001 because a decade of the War on Terror brought a government ever bigger and more burdensome, as well as "security" measures that impede the innocent rather than focusing on wrongdoers. Our ruling class justified its ever-larger role in America's domestic life by redefining war as a never-ending struggle against unspecified enemies for abstract objectives, and by asserting expertise far above that of ordinary Americans. After 9/11, far from deliberating on the best course to take, our rulers stayed on autopilot and hit the throttles.

> We must, then, understand what our bipartisan ruling class wrought in international and domestic affairs during the post-9/11 war, and how differently the decade might have turned out had our rulers pursued the proper ends of domestic and international statecraft.

[Read Angelo M. Codevilla's article *The Lost Decade* here](http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1878/article_detail.asp#).

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