7/6/2023 0 Comments The world after 20 years![]() ![]() He survives the onslaught and slips away, perhaps wounded, into Pakistan. We overthrow the Taliban, or seem to, with relative ease, and attempt to hunt down bin Laden in his remote mountain redoubt at Tora Bora. troops to Afghanistan, which was one of the principal training grounds and shelters for anti-American Islamic terrorists. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. My own citizen’s narrative goes as follows. Two minutes on YouTube will get you back on the roof of the U.S. How can it have come to this, especially with the last days of Vietnam still fresh in our national memory? It was, after all, our first television war. If that cruel and arguably racist statement were true, responsibility would probably cling more to the invaders than the admittedly unsettled people of Afghanistan. Our generals sometimes cynically declare that there was nothing to bomb in Afghanistan, all they’d be doing is rearranging the rubble. ![]() The British only ended their 90-year occupation of Afghanistan in 1919, and just 60 years later the former USSR invaded for a decade. Imagine just for a moment the endless suffering of the people of Afghanistan, arguably the most frequently invaded nation in the world. Embassy, 30 April 1975, Saigon, VietnamĪnd here we are back in Saigon 1975, with people clinging to airplane wings and tires, pandemonium at the airports, the first reprisals already brutally underway, approximately 20,000 American nationals trying desperately to get out while they can, and approximately 18,000 Afghan cooperators, collaborators, and friends who desperately need asylum.
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