This 9/11 Commemorates the Zombie War on Terror: Eleven years after 9/11, Osama is dead and the U.S. continually boasts about how weak al-Qaida is now. In a rational world, as the emergency receded, so too would the government's wartime footing. In the world we actually live in, the war on terrorism is more like a zombie, lurching forward thoughtlessly on instinct and stimulus-response. Welcome to the Zombie War on Terror.