America’s Geopolitical Emperors Show Signs of a Waning Throne
On October 7th, 2001, President Bush sent troops into Afghanistan searching for revenge against Al Qaida for the 9/11 attacks. It took us over a decade to find Osama Bin Laden, but we did find him. Navy Seals invaded his compound in Pakistan and put a bullet in his head 10 years ago. The threat of terrorism we were facing in many ways became much stronger after Bin Laden died. Not only was he a martyr, but the United States lost its moral authority to be in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he died. His death wasn’t enough for us though. The U.S. government didn’t just want to defeat the immediate threat, we wanted to erase this man’s way of thinking all together. I wish we could erase his kind of thinking as well, but the past 20 years in Afghanistan
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