• crashfrog@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think you can really argue that the war in Afghanistan was “unnecessary.” We were attacked by terrorists from that country, remember?

    We were never going to let OBL do 9/11 and then just walk away.

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      11 months ago

      Except we did.

      When Bin Laden was cornered in caves in Afghanistan further resources to go after him were denied and sent to Iraq instead. There’s a reason OBL was killed in Pakistan during an entirely different presidential administration.

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        11 months ago

        Sure, you can definitely argue that the war in Iraq was unnecessary.