The Soudy Government and the Nine 11 Attacks

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There's this idea of state sponsor terrorism, right? So you have a small group of individuals, but they have financial support from a state. Therefore the state has some moral culpability, therefore we can justify taking action against them. Heas ged to remember that alcada did attack the world trade center buildings in the nineties,. 96, maybe it was or 93, the truck bomb in the basement in the parking lot underneath the world Trade Center building.

Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains startling revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war, from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. The Afghanistan Papers is a shocking account that will supercharge a long overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.