How many of the 9/11 hijackers were from Afghanistan? The Taliban sheltered OBL. He has been dead for years and not even in that country for longer than that. At some point, still being in Afghanistan became even dumber than originally going into Iraq.
I heard “we have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here” for years. I’ve even repeated it. Well, that’s a fake argument. Since 9/11 we have let ever-increasing numbers of them into here. We are still training them to fly planes. It’s amazing how the one policy that is absolutely 100% politically impossible is the one that most Americans wanted after 9/11: They don’t get to come here. That was never even on the table. Many Black Americans (who are experiencing record low levels of unemployment due to the economic leadership of the Trump Administration in case you hadn’t heard) expressed dismay to me that the 9/11 terrorists were allowed into our country. Well, what the people wanted was never tried.
Donald Trump ran partly on ending neocon wars and not starting any new neocon wars. He is holding the line on that against enormous pressure from within “his own” party. That’s why Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, Jennifer Rubin, et al. hate Trump so much. It’s also why some former Never-Trumpers have come to support Trump or even serve in his administration: to manipulate from within. We were supposed to have been at war in at least Syria and Iran by now, in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan. You know, because fighting wars in the Middle East serves America’s interests ... somehow.
President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, mainly for what he has refused to do to this point, but the prize doesn’t deserve him.
What they also hate is the threat of money being cut off to both insiders as well as outside contractors who make quite a bit of money from being there.
“A quadrupling in opium production”
Soon to be worthless due to the popularity of much more potent and cheaper fentanyl.