Afghanistan invasion was just show business

'Justice' could have been delivered by a single assassin or one mass bombing raid on the camp of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda’s leader, tucked away deep in the Afghan hills.

Then-U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and then-Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris inherited an agreement their predecessor signed with the Taliban. Photograph courtesy of Facebook

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 15, 2021

“If they go, we’ll all have to go. That’s the reality of it,” said a British source about President Joe Biden’s announcement that the last American troops will be out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York ...

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