The war on Afghanistan was in response to Saudi Arabia attacking the US on 9/11. As Obama’s released documents showed, the US government knew that it was Saudi Arabia, but likely due to business reasons, Bush/Cheney decided to attack other Middle Eastern countries for their oil instead and call it a War on Terror ™.
Afghanistan is arguable, but it was primarily to prevent terrorism.
The war on Afghanistan was in response to Saudi Arabia attacking the US on 9/11. As Obama’s released documents showed, the US government knew that it was Saudi Arabia, but likely due to business reasons, Bush/Cheney decided to attack other Middle Eastern countries for their oil instead and call it a War on Terror ™.
primarilyOstensibly.
Nominally.
Well they didn’t go over Afghanistan for the oil.
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Just like people swat beehives to get rid of bees.
We’ve known for quite some time that our adventurism in the Middle East (and elsewhere) is among the biggest drivers of terrorism.
Right…“terrorism”. And Iraq had WMD’s too.
Iraq and Afghanistan were very different. I protested against the Iraq war.
Our troops were guarding opium poppy fields. Then we had the opium epidemic.