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The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.

Quintupling down are we? Never change, The Atlantic.

ETA: Not sure if there’s a paywall, so just in case: https://archive.ph/68sf0

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

To be fair afghanistan was where bin laden was holed up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Talib government at the time asked US for evidence of Osama involvement, they would consider extradition. They didn't get any. Thinking about it, neither did we.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Even if the US had 2024 intelligence at the time they would have still went after the rest of al kaida, in particular the rest of the leadership. It is sorta funny because I think they did buy into bin ladens press who ended up being just like trump or others. rich guy not going to be living in a cave and surprise surprise actually lives in luxury while pretending to be this cave dwelling freedom fighter man of the people.

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