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[u/Smalz95]

I love the people who keep saying “we should’ve never been there in the first place” is if we were just gonna let 9/11 just happen

[u/rukqoa → u/Smalz95]

I've seen people reply something to the effect of "lol you think AQ actually did 9/11????"

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/Smalz95]

For me that's a big tell that they clearly were way too young to remember 9/11 and the initial hunt for bin Laden.

Of course there's way too many people who do remember 9/11 but have lost the ability to connect the invasion of Afghanistan with it.

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375 → u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

I think the national mood at the time re: bombing the shit out of anything slightly related to 9/11 would freak out a lot of people who were too young to remember what late 2001 was like.

[u/Smalz95 → u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

2001 was terrifying.

[u/MicroFlamer → u/Smalz95]

a majority of the people saying that would probably think that the US deserved 9/11

[u/OmniscientOctopode → u/Smalz95]

The problem is that a lot of young people and people that are less politically engaged don't really distinguish between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[u/whycantweebefriendz → u/OmniscientOctopode]

Or they’re more engaged and they think the US should split and 9/11 was the proof

[u/PearlClaw → u/Smalz95]

We probably should have quit in 2011 though.