Thousands of families were grappling with the deaths of their loved ones in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 and the American public was coming to terms with the reality of an enemy unlike any the nation had faced before -- a shadowy network of terrorists that orchestrated the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.
Security experts appear to agree that original goal of Operation Enduring Freedom seems to have been accomplished, but the question of whether or not America is safer today remains up for debate. "In Afghanistan, the Taliban is currently not a threat to the United States, to the U.S. homeland. It clearly battles [the] U.S. military in Afghanistan but is not motivated to conduct attacks against the U.S. homeland and does not attempt to do so," Felbab-Brown said of the current state of the threat from Afghanistan.
Kolenda pointed to the costly nature – both in terms of lives lost and money spent -- of what has now turned into America’s longest war. Five years later, when then-President Barack Obama ended combat operations in Afghanistan, he said the core of al Qaeda leadership had been devastated, Osama bin Laden had been killed and terror plots had been disrupted.
Why are we continuing to train these Afghanis who then shoot our soldiers in the back? Afghanistan is a complete waste. Time to come home! "Over the last 18 years the U.S. has dramatically improved its ability to prevent attacks by foreign terrorist groups," he said."Unfortunately however, those same counter-terrorism capabilities are ill-suited to address the current threat facing the United States.
A 2015 assessment of the current terrorism threat environment by the National Counterterrorism Center acknowledged that 9/11-style catastrophic attacks were less likely because of consistent counterterror pressure.
Why does Trump abandon the Kurds, our only loyal allies in the entire Middle East, in Syria to be killed by Turkey...yet, leaves U.S. troops to defend and die for a corrupt government in Afghanistan? This is beyond comprehension and I pray for all of our Kurdish friends.
winning
Don’t forget that the US created ISIS and all the screwups in th e Middle East. Just going to walk away from the problems the US created..?
End this war. How long will we be committing lives and resources to this epic scam?
All for what? Get em home
And people believe it is not for the oil
If Obama had left the necessary troops there for support, it would have been over by now.
And we're still over there slaughtering civilians 😥
And today, Kim Jung Trump betrayed our allies, the Kurds. It’s astonishing to me that anyone can defend the great unmatched unhinged person who is our president KimJungTrump impeach45 TrumpTaxReturns TrumpIsATraitor SyriaWithdrawal
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
And now our president makes official military action announcements on Twitter.
Should've/could've just been ended with one bomb 🤣🙏
Don’t forget how the Bush’s and Chaney got rich from this
so
18 years later... 'are we there yet'...
Trump obscures Obama's mistakes
Thanks alot George Bush.
How many soldiers died?
Sad....
how man have perished?
Trump wants the wars to end .
To fight terrorism? Still pushing that false narrative?
The wars in the Middle East are why George W Bush is a way worse President than Trump.
Bring em all home
Hey ABC News, are you guys a bunch of scaredy cats? Or has Scientology bought you off as well? This dangerous, insidious cult has taken over the city of Clearwater Florida.They have been able to do so because of their tax exempt status? Did Charles Manson have tax exempt status?
We invaded the wrong country, we should have invaded Saudi Arabia
God bless our troops!
Just here for the replies...
Yet all these years later WE ARE STILL THERE. There will always be a 'Bin Laden.' Our soldiers are STILL dying...
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911CORLEBRA777
I don’t know why you still haven’t yet been tried by the international criminal court;One of the most conspicuous criminal the world has ever seen..
my penpal in Kabul for NATO.
Afghanistan war going for 18 years. That's 3 times as long as World War 2. Like fly's stuck in the fly spray.
That was a GOOD & JUST war! We had some 'payback' to deal out! So George, WHY did we invade Iraq rather than getting something BIG & beautiful done--like the FairTax? We paid 100's of BILLIONS & thousands of American boys dead and wounded so that we could hand Iraq over to Iran.
He don’t seem that bad now 🤣
911CORLEBRA777 Here’s another fake president.. it should have been Al Gore if JebBush hadn’t cheated and given the presidency to him!
Bush Crime Syndicate...
Well past time for this war to be over.
What did we learn in school?
I remember the day he was elected president. I was only 10-11 years old and I remember my mother telling me 'Just watch, Son. We're going to end up going to war with Iraq.' I asked why she thought this, and she told me 'Follow the money, baby. They want control of the oil.'
And we’re STILL THERE!! ⏳
Another big lie.
полагаю Армия, спецслужбы и Конгресс США и Великобритании ошиблись, как в установлении виновных во внешних атаках, учиненных по территории США 11.09.2001, так и в объекте своих военных атак по территории Афганистана, подстроенных кровожадными врагами демократии.
Another false flag war.
полагаю Армия, спецслужбы и Конгресс США и Великобритании ошиблись как в установлении виновных во внешних атаках, учиненных по территории США 11.09.2001, так и в объекте своих военных атак на территории Афганистана, подстроенных кровожадными врагами демократии
Miss you bro
Which was a mistake. A barren nation. Bin Laden was target and burrowed in Pakistan.
Monkey featured puppet, war criminal who should be rotting in prison
These were good old days. When U.S. had allies. Today Turkey ( Altaic Brother) attacked Kurdish people. Not good.
And it took HOW MANY YEARS to catch him while innocent people died? Then we kill the man and dance in the streets?!? Oh we’re so much better than other countries. So much better. Soooo civilized. What do we care about today? Riots all over the world? Whatever is popular? Plump..
War Criminal Paint Therapy Empire
History Always Repeats Itself
Everybody should remember that per General Wesley Clark, there were plans to invade Afghanistan in the Pentagon on September 10th, also interesting is that Osama Bin Laden DENIED responsibility for the attacks.
Bush was bad but trump is on a different level of bad. I never thought I would take bush over anyone but here I am
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