The war on Afghanistan was in response to Saudi Arabia attacking the US on 9/11. As Obama’s released documents showed, the US government knew that it was Saudi Arabia, but likely due to business reasons, Bush/Cheney decided to attack other Middle Eastern countries for their oil instead and call it a War on Terror ™.
Attacks on heroin production were primarily to hit the Taliban’s source of funding. Fentanyl is synthetic, and almost none of the US heroin comes form Afghanistan.
The Department of War was its original name. I’ve always thought it to be a more honest name than the Department of Defence.
When was the last defensive war the US fought?
Afghanistan is arguable, but it was primarily to prevent terrorism.
The war on Afghanistan was in response to Saudi Arabia attacking the US on 9/11. As Obama’s released documents showed, the US government knew that it was Saudi Arabia, but likely due to business reasons, Bush/Cheney decided to attack other Middle Eastern countries for their oil instead and call it a War on Terror ™.
primarilyOstensibly.
Nominally.
Well they didn’t go over Afghanistan for the oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States
Attacks on heroin production were primarily to hit the Taliban’s source of funding. Fentanyl is synthetic, and almost none of the US heroin comes form Afghanistan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47861444
The Afghanistan was really was about terrorism (even though the hijackers were Saudis).
Lmao
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Just like people swat beehives to get rid of bees.
We’ve known for quite some time that our adventurism in the Middle East (and elsewhere) is among the biggest drivers of terrorism.
Right…“terrorism”. And Iraq had WMD’s too.
Iraq and Afghanistan were very different. I protested against the Iraq war.
Our troops were guarding opium poppy fields. Then we had the opium epidemic.