![]() ![]() The Taliban very quickly offered to surrender. ![]() That was pretty much repeated, in different words, by the American secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who was one of the main agents of the invasion. What they want to do is show their muscle and intimidate everyone in the world.” “But the Americans don’t care about the Afghans, and they don’t care about overthrowing the Taliban. said, “The invasion will kill many Afghans, it will undermine our efforts to overthrow the Taliban-regime from within.” He laid out those efforts and thought they were promising. He had an interview in October 2001, right after the bombing started, with a leading Central Asia scholar, Anatol Lieven, who asked him, “What do you think about the invasion?” What was the motivation for the invasion itself? I think the best answer to this was given by the leading figure in the anti-Taliban Afghan resistance, Abdul Haq, a highly respected Afghan leader leading the resistance to the Taliban from within. He said, “We presume that the perpetrators were al-Qaeda and bin Laden, but we haven’t been able to establish it.” That’s eight months after the invasion. He was asked, “Who was responsible for 9/11?” This is now after the most intensive multinational investigation, probably, in human history. ![]() In fact, eight months later, the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, had his first major press conference. ![]() It’s important to recognize first that the United States didn’t know who was responsible for 9/11. ![]()
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