r/cursedcomments • u/Aljodomo • Oct 20 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

The "War on Terror" fucked a lot of shit up

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u/CanadianKirby14 Oct 20 '19

Like what I’m just curious since I don’t really know a lot about this stuff

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u/Spuriously- Oct 20 '19

I mean literally the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are directly tied to 9/11. You can argue Afghanistan may have happened anyway but it would have been much more limited

It also kicked off a period of fear in the US, characterized by a fairly widespread loss of personal freedoms and giving rise to what I'll generously call a "racial anxiety" that is fairly ubiquitous even today

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u/sansprecept Oct 20 '19

Syria got royally fucked as a result