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I actually agree with you that the war in Afghanistan was an absurdly wrong move, and have thought this since it started. However this statement: > There is n
by zepto 5y ago
I actually agree with you that the war in Afghanistan was an absurdly wrong move, and have thought this since it started.
However this statement:
> There is no connection at all between 9/11 and the necessity for the US to have launched what turned out to be a 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. None.
Is simply not true.
- atoav 5y ago> There is no connection at all between 9/11 and the necessity for the US to have launched what turned out to be a 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. None. Of course there is a connection. Poltics felt obligated to do something. In purely practical terms the US (and the world) might have been better off if instead of going for a war in Afghanistan, the US did nothing instead (except for a proper investigation of course). But wars are not often about purely practical matters anyways. Sometimes they are more domestic politics than foreign, sometimes they are more about telling and selling stories than about survival.