[2OEH8eoCRo0]

You don't think the war in Afghanistan was justified? After 9/11 the US invoked NATO article 5 and allies went to Afghanistan with the US.

[dumdumdumdum]

Just because you've invoked some article amongst your buddies doesn't make a war justified. The hubris is astounding.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

~3,000 people died on 9/11 and it was planned in Afghanistan. If that's not justification then what is?

[dumdumdumdum]

100x civilians died because of the war in Afghanistan, which was mainly planned in the US. Looking forward to disagreeing with your Afghani twin about the justification for invading and occupying the US for 20 years.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Please stay on topic. I'm arguing that the war was justifiably initiated because the US was responding to an attack that killed ~3,000 of it's citizens.

[dumdumdumdum]

I thought I was. It's not justifiable to bomb and invade a whole sovereign nation to capture a few criminals. Especially if that nation is willing to negotiate their extradition for a fair trial. Just like it would not be justifiable for Afghanistan to bomb and invade the US now because a few criminals "tortured some folks" and killed 1000s of its citizens who had nothing to do with 9/11.

[dboreham]

Pakistan and Saudi seemed to have quite a bit to do with it also, but...no invasion there.

[Vecr]

The US was in Pakistan right after 9/11 though, marines and staging bases and everything. They didn't invade, because they had assets already there and Pakistan let more in.

[gambiting]

That's a deflection, not an answer to that question.

[MrRiddle]

Isn’t it the Saudi who did 9/11?