25 Years after the 9/11 inspired War on Terror we have learnt nothing as a species
The War on Terror.
25 years on.
The obscenity of real time live carnage in the very New York heart of Capitalism and the Pentagon shaped heart of the American Military Industrial Complex.
The CIA blowback of supporting Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan only for him to turn on the hand that armed him when American Oil companies attempted to build an oil pipe line through Afghanistan.
To take that horror and manipulate it into a war with another CIA client, Saddam Hussein using fake Weapons of Mass Destruction is the true trickery of George W Bush.
The invasion of Iraq and the subsequent butchery it provoked is too sickening to remember.
America’s post-9/11 wars on Terror have directly killed more than 940,000 people, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project. Once deaths from hunger, disease, destroyed infrastructure and other indirect consequences are included, researchers estimate the toll at between 4.5 and 4.7 million. In Iraq alone, a landmark 2006 Lancet study estimated 655,000 excess deaths in just the first three years after the US-led invasion.
George W Bush and Tony Blair have never been held accountable for going to war based on lies.
25 Years on the truth of the poison in the air from 9/11 only now gets released…
New York City released over 170,000 pages of documents revealing officials repeatedly misled residents about the toxic air quality levels after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, just days before the city marks its 25th anniversary.
CNN
…hilariously Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind 9/11 can’t be put on trial because the American’s tortured him over 180 times meaning his evidence taken under torture can’t be admissible as evidence against him!
That deadlock seems to sum up the tragic stalemate of American power.
This image of Americans mocking and torturing Iraqis unmasked what America always was and really is.
Afghanistan has fallen back to the Gender Apartheid Taliban and Trump is locked into a new war with Iran.
25 Years after the 9/11 inspired War on Terror we have learnt nothing as a species
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
War is eternal. We fight, we have always fought. We have exchanged sticks and stones for knives and arrows and then for all the creative uses of gunpowder that we can come up with. Later on, after things get really bad on this planet for most humans, we will eventually end up using sticks and stones again. 90% of us dont want to use anything at all but the 10% seem to do a lot better