The now millennium really began on Sept. 11, 2001. True, the economies of the U.S. and the rest of the globe were showing worrying signs of dis-tress in the weeks and months be-fore terrorists crashed three pas-senger planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Hut by striking down a key pillar of America's leadership-its unbridledrnfaith in its own security-the catastrophe has plunged the world into an uncertain new era. A decade ago, when the cold war was history and nations rushed to embrace free markets, the world seemed united by shared op-portunity. It now seems united bv a dread of risk.
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