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Originally Posted by u crank
Yea it's true they were there and the Taliban was giving them shelter. But was it worth getting involved in a twelve year long war that cost trillions of dollars, thousands of casualties and undoubtedly increased the resolve of Jihadists worldwide?
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Were 3000 murdered Americans not worth to launch a war against those committing the deed, planning it - and those suzppoortiung, hiding them, giving them, shelter? If 9/11 was no reason to kill those doing the deed, what ever then would be a reason?
Different from that question is the way the war was run.
However, Iraq was a war of desire that was intended ten years in advance (I feel uncomfortable to call that ammount of dilletantism and naivety by which Bush assumed to be able to run the show, "planning the war" - obviously the Bush administration dig out the old neocon intention only without turning that intention into a proper war plan. Not only unscrupulous gangsters they were, but
incompetent unscrupulous gangster). Afghanistan was a war of need that came unforseen and surprising, America had to react to 9/11, else it could have said goodbye to its claim to be a big
nation and having a say in global things. An empire cannot afford to not react to an attack and provocation the scale of 9/11. I have
never criticised the US for having gone to war in Afghanistan over the Al Quaeda leaders hiding there. I only criticised the US for the way they ran the event, and over Iraq in general.