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>bro they gaslit the whole country into being islamophobes for a solid few years there so we'd agree with the invasion of Afghanistan, predicated upon a former CIA asset supposedly having had some hand in 9/11 The invasion of Afghanistan started like a month after 9/11, and there's basically no evidence Bin Laden himself had CIA connections. The Afghans that harbored him did, but not Bin Laden. I am very critical of…
that's easily the least-interesting part of my post though (and a quick web search will show plenty of evidence both for and against it). again: our news media temporarily gaslit the entire country into being bigoted against an entire major world religion (not to mention other groups who were unfortunate enough to resemble, at a glance, the caricatures we were gaslit into hating—like Sikhs), solely to further the age…
It's still wrong. I'm not disagreeing with your overall narrative, which is why I'm not discussing it. We weren't gaslit into starting the War in Afghanistan, the Bush administration presented a clear reason for the invasion that probably was true. That doesn't forgive all the administration's other faults.