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RaleighNCDUer
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Fri Mar-27-09 10:58 AM
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The bombing campaign didn't start until 4 weeks after 9/11 - on Oct 7. The people doing the fighting were Afghani warlords - the so-called 'Northern Alliance'. There were maybe a couple hundred CIA and special ops troops helping target the bombings.
'We' consisted of us using B-52s to augment tribal rivalries. There were no significant numbers of US troops in Afghanistan until November - and as late as March the next year there were still under 10,000.
Going after Bin Laden was justified. The war against the Taliban was not. And we fucked up both.
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