AFGHANISTAN ODYSSEY
May 12, 2022
2 minutes
fter the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Department of Defense in Washington DC the Bush administration announced plans for a global campaign against Al Qaeda and its network of allies. Rather than extend the previous Clinton administration’s counterterrorism policies of limited punitive strikes, President Bush’s cabinet built a consensus for attacking Afghanistan to root out the masterminds behind 9/11 in what became Operation
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