The documents were generated by a federal project examining the root
failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history. They include
more than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with
people who played a direct role in the war, from generals and diplomats
to aid workers and Afghan officials.
We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
“What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth $1 trillion?”
“After the killing of Osama bin Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Everyone old enough nows why all this started.Some might have not heard of this,born after the war started, still fought and died in Afghanistan.
The pilots who crashed in to the twin towers were Saudis.
and 2 decades after that US Navy is training Saudi pilots who bomb Yemeni's in to starvation.
The Saudi air force trainee who killed three sailors at a US navy base last week reportedly made an official complaint about being called “pornstache” by one of his instructors.
Mohammed Alshamrani said he was left “infuriated” earlier this year when an instructor referred to him using the mocking nickname, according to the New York Times.
The complaint has emerged as part of an investigation by the FBI into the shooting at Pensacola naval base, which is being treated as a presumed terrorist attack.
Whom are they Fooling?
(If this was really a terrorist attack,We would have few more towers falling)
“I was infuriated as to why he would say that in front of the class,” Alshamrani said, according to a summary of his complaint.
Although the complaint said the derogatory nickname was “Porn
Stash”, he appeared to mean “pornstache”, referring to a style of thick
moustache associated with porn actors.
Holy War Lured Saudis As Rulers Looked Away
By Douglas JeN
— In the last decade, as thousands of young Saudis left their country
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 21
to wage Islamic holy war, Saudi leaders let them go, aware Of the danger they might pose to the United
States, but more focused on the danger they would pose at Horne.
At least four times in the last six years, Saudis who were trained or recruited in Afghanistan, Chechnya,
Kosovo or Bosnia have been among the terrorists who carried out bombings of American targets — in
Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen. But not until October, after the American military campaign
in Afghanistan began, did Saudi Arabia detain young men trying to join that fight.
Until then, the royal family performed a diplomatic and political balancing act. Choosing
accommodation over confrontation, the government shied away from a crackdown on militant clerics or their followers, a move that would have inflamed the religious right, the disaffected returnees from other wars and a growing number of unemployed.
It appears to have been a miscalculation Of global proportions, Western diplomats now say. As they look
back to examine the roots of the Sept.11 attacks, officials in Saudi Arabia, Europe and the United States
describe a similar pattem. In country after country, A1 Qaeda's networks took hold, onen with the
knowledge of local intelligence and security agencies. But on the rare occasions that countries did
address the terrorist threat, they chose to deal with it as a local issue rather than an interlocking global
network.
The result: for Osama bin Laden's most audacious strike against the United States, Europe was his
forward base, Saudi Arabia his pool of recruits, the United States a vulnerable target.
In interviews here, fonner senior officials said they had recognized the exodus of warTi0ß as a
source for concem, for the kingdom and its American ally. But they insisted that they thought the danger
could be contained.
We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
“What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth $1 trillion?”
“After the killing of Osama bin Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Everyone old enough nows why all this started.Some might have not heard of this,born after the war started, still fought and died in Afghanistan.
The pilots who crashed in to the twin towers were Saudis.
and 2 decades after that US Navy is training Saudi pilots who bomb Yemeni's in to starvation.
The Saudi air force trainee who killed three sailors at a US navy base last week reportedly made an official complaint about being called “pornstache” by one of his instructors.
Mohammed Alshamrani said he was left “infuriated” earlier this year when an instructor referred to him using the mocking nickname, according to the New York Times.
Whom are they Fooling?
(If this was really a terrorist attack,We would have few more towers falling)
“I was infuriated as to why he would say that in front of the class,” Alshamrani said, according to a summary of his complaint.
Holy War Lured Saudis As Rulers Looked Away
By Douglas JeN
— In the last decade, as thousands of young Saudis left their country
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 21
to wage Islamic holy war, Saudi leaders let them go, aware Of the danger they might pose to the United
States, but more focused on the danger they would pose at Horne.
At least four times in the last six years, Saudis who were trained or recruited in Afghanistan, Chechnya,
Kosovo or Bosnia have been among the terrorists who carried out bombings of American targets — in
Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen. But not until October, after the American military campaign
in Afghanistan began, did Saudi Arabia detain young men trying to join that fight.
Until then, the royal family performed a diplomatic and political balancing act. Choosing
accommodation over confrontation, the government shied away from a crackdown on militant clerics or their followers, a move that would have inflamed the religious right, the disaffected returnees from other wars and a growing number of unemployed.
It appears to have been a miscalculation Of global proportions, Western diplomats now say. As they look
back to examine the roots of the Sept.11 attacks, officials in Saudi Arabia, Europe and the United States
describe a similar pattem. In country after country, A1 Qaeda's networks took hold, onen with the
knowledge of local intelligence and security agencies. But on the rare occasions that countries did
address the terrorist threat, they chose to deal with it as a local issue rather than an interlocking global
network.
The result: for Osama bin Laden's most audacious strike against the United States, Europe was his
forward base, Saudi Arabia his pool of recruits, the United States a vulnerable target.
In interviews here, fonner senior officials said they had recognized the exodus of warTi0ß as a
source for concem, for the kingdom and its American ally. But they insisted that they thought the danger
could be contained.
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