Anti-Terror In a Tangle?
Nov 04, 2021
3 minutes
By Ong Tee Keat
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that triggered the American “war on terror,” a blanket term for all preemptive military strikes intended to reduce the threat terrorism posed to the U.S. homeland. It was foreshadowed by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, which had brought about enormous sorrow, wanton destruction and civilian casualties to the Afghan nation before the American troops finally made their chaotic exit two decades later.
In retrospect, the war on terror failed to pummel the spread of
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