Much talk of how the Afghanistan war failed over the past 20 years.
Much less talk of how the original invasion itself was an outrage, given there were no Afghans aboard any of the 4 planes.
@RepBarbaraLee was the only member of Congress to vote against it and she was right.
Much less talk of how the original invasion itself was an outrage, given there were no Afghans aboard any of the 4 planes.
@RepBarbaraLee was the only member of Congress to vote against it and she was right.
The response to 9/11 by the Bush crew was to declare an open-ended 'war on terror', which began with an invasion of one of the poorest countries on earth, whose nationals had nothing to do with 9/11. Then Iraq, which also had nothing to do with 9/11.
None of it made us safer.
None of it made us safer.
To avenge the 3,000 innocents who died on 9/11, the U.S. under Bush invaded, occupied and/or bombed multiple Muslim-majority countries, leading to the deaths of 100s of 1000s of innocents who had nothing to do with 9/11.
The war on terror only gave us more war and more terror.
The war on terror only gave us more war and more terror.
Imagine if the U.S. had *not* declared a 'war on terror', and invaded Afghanistan & then Iraq. Imagine if the response to 9/11 had been rooted in police work, intelligence, international law, aid...winning hearts & minds. Imagine how much safer we would have been all these years.
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