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2021-09-10 Terror Networks

20 Years after 9/11 – Are We Better Off?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-10 03:03|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Gone are the unity, confidence and resolution On 9/11/2001 I scoured the internet for indications of those who were NOT part of this so-called "unity". There were plenty of them, authors of which had the sense to simply shut up and keep their own "death-to-America" sentiments quiet for a while. Those deviant comments and links disappeared within a few weeks of 9/11/2001. E.g. I remember stories of candy being distributed in Paleostine to celebrate the attacks, and something about Yasir Arafat trying to quash the news about the joy there. Now the "death-to-America" faction is running things.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-09-10 09:36|| 2021-09-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 They've certainly centralized and grabbed more power over our lives since then. The ruling class is more about power and control than solving problems. Their faux virtue is more important than doing what is necessary as shown by thousands of years of human history.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-10 09:54|| 2021-09-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 After Vietnam we were shown the end of the "losing is not an option" school of thought.
Afghanistan has given us the "Winning is not an option" result.
Mayhaps the exit from this particular loop we're in is to abandon the win/lose binary, and just go with smite them.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-10 12:38|| 2021-09-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#4 I joked about it at the time, but we might have been better off with Gore in power because he might have moved us away from the oil economy and onto Nukes. That combined with the initial removal of Taliban would have been a nice move.

Of course Gore's a lib and thus anti-nuke so it wouldn't have worked the way I'd hoped.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-09-10 12:57|| 2021-09-10 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 If the neocons are finally discredited, that's a positive outcome.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-10 13:44|| 2021-09-10 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 So on the 20th anniversary of 911 we have come to realize a few things. 1. The people that attacked America, on American soil have won the war. This is a first as no one have ever attacked us and survived. 2. We gave them status and legitimacy on the world stage. They are now going to the UN as a legit state due to us. 3. We completely outfitted their military. 4. And in the Biden budget we have a funding line to pay for rebuilding their country. Tomorrow will be a tough day as we remember the lives and fortune we spent and walked away losers.

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-09-10 18:12|| 2021-09-10 18:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Pretty much everything Bin Laden wanted to achieve by 9/11 we in fact simply handed it to AQ. Perhaps, he had that understanding all along.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-09-10 21:17|| 2021-09-10 21:17|| Front Page Top

#8 The Hundred Year was was actually more than one war between the same countries. War on Terror may resume if the Taliban over-reaches.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-09-10 23:30|| 2021-09-10 23:30|| Front Page Top

#9 See also, Crusades.

Posted by George Elmoluting3662 2021-09-10 23:57|| 2021-09-10 23:57|| Front Page Top

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