Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks reshaped the American understanding of vulnerability, former President George W. Bush returned to his presidential library in Dallas to offer a warning not about what was done, but about what is being forgotten. Standing with Condoleezza Rice, who sat beside him on that morning in 2001, Bush argued that the drift toward isolationism — the conviction that domestic troubles excuse disengagement from the world — represents a fundamental misreading of what the attacks revealed. His message was quiet but urgent: global instability is not a foreign pr