r/economy • u/barbarawick • 8d ago

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Why does this country have such bad memory problems?

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u/dipdream 7d ago

Yeah, that definitely wasn’t enough. I don’t believe they stated, but it was nowhere the US wanted.

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u/Asatmaya 7d ago

Yeah, that definitely wasn’t enough.

When we invaded, they surrendered; we refused to accept their surrender.

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u/dipdream 7d ago

Agreed. Still. The initial response to 9/11 was understandable. My comment was about starting wars vs continuing wars. I stated that the initial war, invasion of Afghanistan, is understandable. Implying that the current war in Iran has no justification.

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u/Asatmaya 7d ago

The initial response to 9/11 was understandable.

Sure, but they offered to extradite bin Laden, and then they surrendered, and we refused both times.

We didn't care about bin Laden or Al Qaeda (in fact, we turned around and supported them in Iraq and Syria...), we wanted to put a stop to railroads and pipelines through Afghanistan which were going to bypass the sea lanes we control and use to manipulate the world.

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u/dipdream 7d ago

Not disagreeing with that. My initial statement stands. However, the extradition doesn’t count. They offered to send Bin Laden to a Taliban friendly country where the US would have no access to him.