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| 20 years later: How 9/11 changed the Arab world |
| 2021-09-13 |
BLUF: America was stupid and arrogant to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in response to 9/11, and is even more stupid and arrogant to withdraw now, especially as they did it. In both cases it was the innocent Arab Muslims who suffered. The lesson that it’s a bad idea to trigger American intervention seems entirely to have been missed by the editorialist. [AlAhram] Twenty years after the 11 September attacks, the tragedy is still having wide-ranging geopolitical and humanitarian impacts on the Arab worldTwo decades ago at the beginning of the 21st century, the Arab world looked to be at a crossroads and facing huge challenges and perspectives. The region was moving forward cautiously a decade after the Gulf War to remove Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait and the signing of the historic Paleostinian-Israeli peace agreement. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 "Democracies have no staying power" Jerry Pournelle |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2021-09-13 07:34 |
| #1 Some of us think our response after 911 was too mild. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2021-09-13 02:06 |