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And despite all of the efforts the adversaries haven‘t effectively been taken down, the world is not a more secure place, the reputation of the US has taken dam
by submeta 6y ago
And despite all of the efforts the adversaries haven‘t effectively been taken down, the world is not a more secure place, the reputation of the US has taken damage, in a few years the next IS and taliban are coming, under another name.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoOf note is that Sept 11 was an extreme, one-off outlier. From 1975 to today, the US has been at historically low-levels of domestic terrorism. Five years prior (in 1970), the US reported 400 domestic terror attacks/year [1]. In 1971, the Pentagon Papers leak exposed massive & systemic FBI wrongdoing. Afterward, the agency was reformed and re-tasked into a law enforcement mission (until 2012). By 1975, domestic terrorism had sharply fallen & has remained at that low level since. [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/11/nine-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states-since-911/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/11/nine-... [orig data source: Rand Corp]
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's worse than that. The Taliban is as strong as it ever was and there weren't groups like ISIS before these wars. Al-Qaeda had hundreds of members before 9/11, ISIS had tens to hundreds of thousands. Our "adversaries," generally people (admittedly not the nicest people) who want their sovereignty, have grown exponentially.
- pan69 6y ago> And despite all of the efforts the adversaries haven‘t effectively been taken down Some might argue that that wasn't even the objective and that the take down of adversaries was only a narrative created to justify the start of these wars.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoThe point of the war was never to accomplish anything. It was to burn money.
- newen 6y agoA mechanism to transfer money from people's paychecks to defense contracting companies.