The idea that we occupied Afghanistan for 20 years over 9/11 is absurd.
- We had been meddling there for 20 years before 9/11
- The Taliban and mujahideen which became Al-Qaeda had been the good guys when they were on the side of the CIA against the Soviet Union
- Osama bin Laden was mysteriously allowed to escape Afghanistan in 2001
- We stayed in Afghanistan for a decade after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan
- The Taliban offered to surrender in 2001 and hand over Osama bin Laden without a U.S. invasion
- The U.S. and NATO later supported Al-Qaeda in Libya and Syria
The “War on Terror” was a smokescreen and pretext that was used to justify a preexisting agenda. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
Can you mirror the video? It’s asking for log in.
I don’t “sign in” to watch Youtube, but I’m sure it’s very accurate and that’s why Youtube restricts it. I may have seen it before over a year ago. Sometimes the cencorship is delayed. Abby Martin, who used to have her own show (“Breaking the Set”) on Russia Today, is excellent for this sort of thing. Incidentally, her ancestry is White. Her husband is of Jewish descent but anti-Zionist.
There was never any reason for an invasion in the first place. All that was needed was special forces to go after Bin Laden and the other terrorists, and this was done ten or twelve years ago, when Obama was in office.
And, we probably wouldn’t have had the 9/11 attacks if the ‘fighting them over there so we won’t have to fight them here’ jerks hadn’t let these Muslim fanatics in the country, or bare minimum had kept track of them while they were here.
After twenty years, was Afghanistan improved? Given that half the countries populace wants to relocate, the answer is likely no. I still have no idea why the hell we were there so long, then achieving literally nothing……..well, except for more refugees whome we now have to assimilate at our expense.
These contractor’s and interpretaters who are now stuck in Afghanistan and missed the final flights should be a lesson to those who are thinking of helping American military if their nation is invaded in the future:- just don’t get involved. Stand with your OWN government and people. The US military won’t always be there.
If we still had the Immigration Act of 1924 would psychotc desert dweelers even being allowed in America where they can enroll in flight school and learn how to take over airlines ( a quote from the past I remember is one of the owners of the flight school thought it stange that the Arabs attending flight school did not care about landing or take off and told the directotor so. They only wanted to learn how to fly once crusing speed was attained.)
If you’ve taken flying lessons in a single engine propeller plane the whole point is the light as a feather landing at close to stall speed. Interesting to know what licences these Arabs had already. Landing a passenger jet has to be the toughest thing a jet pilot can do right.
For a quick answer to why we’re there for any amount of time, open up a map of the Middle East and take an inventory of which countries border Iran. One side is Iraq, the other Afghanistan. Probably just a total Cohensidence.