On the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York , MacMillan wrote an essay on the consequences of the acts , in which she dismissed the power of Osama bin Laden and stressed the secular nature of the Arab Spring revolutions that deposed Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali . She concluded with the sentence " We should not let that horror distract us from what did not happen afterward . " In August 2014 MacMillan was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to '' The Guardian '' opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September 's referendum on that issue
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Margaret MacMillan