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Originally Posted by James
This century's spiral of conflict was set off on September 11th 2001 when 3000 civilians were killed in America. Someone needs to remind him off that. Some people voting in this election won't even remember 9/11. What would his reason for the 9/11 attacks be? I suppose he'd say Vietnam or something like that.
After 9/11 America was never not going to go into Afghanistan. It would have happened even if Al Gore had won in the close 2000 election.
France opposed and took no part in the Iraq war in 2003, and yet still has been on the end of some of the worst terrorist attacks. The narrative the terrorists use in those cases is that France has been fighting IS. Does that mean to prevent further attacks countries have to leave IS alone to commit more genocide in Iraq?
In Libya there was already a civil war before Britain and France got involved, and in Syria we have specifically not gotten involved militarily - remember the vote in the Commons after the chemical weapons attack? and Syria is an on-going catastrophe.
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Have you forgotten there was a war in the gulf in the 90s then?... :/