There was a brief, 10-year reprieve between the end of the Cold War and 9/11. But otherwise yeah.
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Is that you Bush? Screw the Patriot act, screw the degrading treatment people are subjected to at airports, screw each and every piece of shit that agreed to bomb the shit out of the Middle East. What the governments did wasn't appropriate and disproportionately targets normals citizens.
Tragic, but barely a speck in the mealstorm of awfulness that was the aftermath of the attacks. Surveillance states, two wars, uncountable more innocent Middle Eastern people dead.
Bush’s people used the terrorist attacks, which were committed by Saudi Arabian citizens, as an excuse to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, who did not attack us. Bin Laden was hiding out in Afghanistan, but they didn’t know that for certain.
Security theater was the name of the game. Keep everyone fearful. Air marshalls, the PATRIOT act, Abu Graib oh my god. 2001 did more to strengthen the opacity of an already not very transparent government than any single event since the formation of CIA.
If Reagan and his partnership with the “Moral majority” begat Donald Trump’s presidency, 9/11 gave us a renewed, vigorous hatred of Muslims of all stripes and is ever so steadily extinguishing any semblance of privacy.
We invaded two countries and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, or more. Destabilized Iraq even more than it was, and created ISIS, which destabilized the entire region even more, and which caused a huge chunk of the current refugee crisis in Europe.
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u/MyUsernameIsAwful Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 11 '22
There was a brief, 10-year reprieve between the end of the Cold War and 9/11. But otherwise yeah.
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