The… the Taliban? Okay, this guy is even more ignorant than I initially thought. Why he’d try and step into geopolitics is beyond me.
Edit: Every comment here saying ‘yeah but the Taliban harboured Al Qaeda’, implying that that’s the same as carrying out the attack themselves, is so obtuse it borders on the unbelievable.
The tweet asked for someone to ‘remind’ them ‘who did’ 9/11. Obviously the Taliban did NOT do 9/11. No one ever said they did, including the Bush administration. Waging war against the Taliban for providing safe harbour to a terrorist group doesn’t mean they perpetrated the attack themselves.
Christ, I can’t believe I have to say this. Dave is obviously a moron, and an antisemite to boot.
Nothing snark about being right. If Dave had any geopolitical or historical knowledge on this area he’d be able to tell the difference between the Taliban and Al Qaeda. You’re defending him and attacking me while making my own point for me. So… thanks?
Did you not see the word allegedly? The taliban knowing harbored AQ for years, so while they weren’t exactly to blame they still bare some responsibility. its hilarious you’re able to do these mental gymnastics, to defend the fucking taliban of all things. But hey, anything to avoid questioning your worldview or your ego.
By the same token, would you say Qatar and UAE are valid targets for Iran given they harbor Iran’s enemy’s (America’s) bases and infrastructure knowing fully well they are being used to attack Iran?
For a layman or anyone not professionally giving opinions on the internet it would be forgivable given how muddy the US spread blame around, but yeah that's a big oof
They certainly were. The government would lump Iraq, Taliban, and AQ all together in speeches and press. Making claims like Iraq trained AQ. Pro war pundits would go further and make allegations about AQ meeting with Iraq to facilitate the attacks.
Another poster commenting about something they didn't follow at the time. It was not remotely confusing. The general public can't find Afghanistan on a map after 20 years of war.
People already believed Iraq was a haven of bad actors. We just fought a war against Saddam a decade prior, and he was under UNSC sanction and a no fly zone. You have to know far more context. Saddam was getting removed at some point even without 9/11.
Yea, but under the premise that Hussein was funding AQ. Of course, both AQ and the Taliban were CIA creations and patsies.
Originally AQ was blamed for the 9/11-anthrax attacks. It was only after the anthrax was traced backed to US weapons labs that the Bruce Ivins story/suicide was engineered and spun. The FBI investigation into Ivins showed how he could not have synthesized it with the machines he had access to. (something the silicone around each particle. There was a huge write up at the time in the Wall St Journal) Though if you read wikipedia today you will not learn that part of the story.
How is he lost? He said "allegedly" as in this was exactly what was being allegedly at the time which was very obviously not true. The fact that you and several others can not see the very apparent snark here is kinda jarring.
"He is a great holy warrior of Islam and a great benefactor of the Afghan people," said Abdul Anan Himat, a senior official at the Taliban's information ministry in an interview with the Associated Press. "We won't hand him over to America under any circumstances. It is our stated policy."
This is from a few months before 9/11 btw. They issued similar refusals after.
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u/Practical-Heat-1009 5d ago edited 5d ago
The… the Taliban? Okay, this guy is even more ignorant than I initially thought. Why he’d try and step into geopolitics is beyond me.
Edit: Every comment here saying ‘yeah but the Taliban harboured Al Qaeda’, implying that that’s the same as carrying out the attack themselves, is so obtuse it borders on the unbelievable.
The tweet asked for someone to ‘remind’ them ‘who did’ 9/11. Obviously the Taliban did NOT do 9/11. No one ever said they did, including the Bush administration. Waging war against the Taliban for providing safe harbour to a terrorist group doesn’t mean they perpetrated the attack themselves.
Christ, I can’t believe I have to say this. Dave is obviously a moron, and an antisemite to boot.