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> Admittedly we failed to rebuild the Afgani state.

Funny, the only talk I remember around then was "bombing them back to the stone age".

We had zero legitimacy in that invasion -- it was a jingoistic angry retaliation with no clear plan on what to do other than "kill terrorists".

Irony alert: we probably created more terrorists than we killed.



And yet we denied them the ability to carry out large-scale attacks in the US for the next 20 years.


The cost was quite high (financial, US lives lost, local lived lost). Perhaps there were better ways of preventing large-scale attacks on the US?


Vegas, et al weren't considered large-scale?


Indeed. The biggest terrorist threats we face are domestic.


That's a rather Panglossian take.

We sacrificed more lives than were lost in the initial attack. And then there's the financial cost which is astronomical.

We had the chance to stop that attack and fucked up.

And now we've handed over control to the Taliban, the very same "freedom fighters" we helped to create. If you think that's victory then you're mistaken.

Meanwhile the greatest threats to America are from internal terrorists.


Causality if far more complex than perceived by the subconscious mind.


Is this sarcastic?




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