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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. These were "a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks [...] against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001."
Of the 2,977 people who died, 2,605 were U.S. citizens and 372 non-U.S. citizens (excluding the 19 perpetrators). More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks, including the United Kingdom (67 deaths), the Dominican Republic (47 deaths), India (41 deaths), Greece (39 deaths), South Korea (28 deaths), Canada (24 deaths), Japan (24 deaths), Colombia (18 deaths), Jamaica (16 deaths), Philippines (16 deaths), Mexico (15 deaths), Trinidad and Tobago (14 deaths), Ecuador (13 deaths), Australia (11 deaths), Germany (11 deaths), Italy (10 deaths), Bangladesh (6 deaths), Ireland (6 deaths), Pakistan (6 deaths), and Poland (6 deaths).
It was a tragedy not only for America, but for the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @05:28PM (1 child)
The Taliban said to the Americans when they first began their occupation, "You have all the clocks, but we have all the time."
It was worse than just a waste of money and lives. Our actions in Afghanistan over the last twenty years resulted in a doubling of the number of Afghans living in poverty today, as compared to in 2001.
And, all that nonsense about liberating women in Afghanistan was given lie by the fact that during the US occupation of Afghanistan, Afghanistan was tied for second worse place in the world to be a woman.
But, as for why we were there so long? $300M/day from public coffers largely to private military contractors is a cash cow for those companies that I imagine they were willing to provide a lot of bribes ^H^H^Hcampaign contributions to keep flowing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @02:21AM
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