Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.

The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.

Quintupling down are we? Never change, The Atlantic.

ETA: Not sure if there’s a paywall, so just in case: https://archive.ph/68sf0

    • davel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      People who actually paid attention have known; people who read The Atlantic not so much.

        • Melkath@kbin.social
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          6 months ago

          The sarcasm is that anyone who was paying attention knew all this 20 years ago.

          Everyone was too busy pushing the war on Iraq and buying American flag stickers for 30 bucks a pop to notice, however.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          these taliban guys are going to the top I say. Thanks Bin Laden for being a western ally against those horrible communists.

          • Melkath@kbin.social
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            6 months ago

            You know, communism/socialism is a failed model that has never succeeded.

            Laissez-faire is the only economic model that has been 100% successful every time. Capitalism is the only way to stop the RED MENACE. /s

            Now please lemmy/mbin. Commence your “tankie/russian bot” comments.

            • Damage@feddit.it
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              6 months ago

              If man was meant to fly, it would have been given wings!

              Not even the great genius Leonardo da Vinci managed to build a flying machine!