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    5 days ago

    That’s kinda what happened. If there is a country that had anything to do with it, it’s Saudi Arabia, yet the US invaded Afghanistan and called it a day.

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      2 days ago

      The Taliban were hosting Al-Qaida, so there was some reason, if not to invade, then at least to make some incursions. Iraq, on the other hand, was one of the most resolute enemies of Al-Qaida. It turns out that secular totalitarians don’t like religious reactionary totalitarians. But Halliburton wanted all those contracts to rebuild the Iraqi oil industry after it had been bombed.