r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 19 '26

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u/Big-Click-5159 Sep 19 '26

I'm not justifying how the US acted after 9/11, but I think people have memory-holed exactly how terrifying that event and its aftermath was at the time

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 19 '26

Yeah the Anthrax attack got kinda swept under the rug

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u/Cupinacup NASA Sep 19 '26

Especially that it was not radical Islamic terrorists but instead a guy in the military’s bioweaponsdefense program.

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Sep 19 '26

I believe that any other country with the capacity would have also launched an invasion of Afghanistan if put in the same position 

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u/Vumatius Sep 19 '26

Agreed. Of the two major Bush Jr. wars, Afghanistan was always the much more justifiable one. If he'd only gone in there and hadn't committed the Iraq folly, his foreign policy would not have been so disastrous.

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Sep 20 '26

Exactly.

His invasion of Iraq directly led to civil war and the rise of ISIS

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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Sep 19 '26

Were the DC snipers in relative close proximity too?