This Sunday, September 11th, marks 21 years since the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed at the hands of terrorists, in New York, Washington DC and a fourth plane which crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
More than two decades of U.S. overseas military intervention followed – at enormous human and financial cost. Owen Fairclough looks at the numbers.
To discuss:
- Ivan Eland is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute.
- Omar Samad is a former Afghan Ambassador to France and Canada and nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center.
- Brian Becker is the executive director of the ANSWER coalition.
- John Sitilides is a geopolitical strategist at Trilogy Advisors.
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Afghanistan serves as a prime example of the destruction brought upon by the US' War on Terror; twenty years of US state violence and military intervention has decimated the nation’s infrastructure and more importantly its citizens way of life. pic.twitter.com/BLtvrJPYD3
— Muslim Counterpublics Lab (@MuslimCpLab) September 7, 2022
Will the US ever be victorious in our endless war on terror? Are we fighting the wrong battle? https://t.co/xdCS0b5emL
— Critical Threats (@criticalthreats) September 2, 2022