Excellent material on Afghanista,. Just want to add that there are three views on War on Terror namely American state version, Opponents’ views and the skeptics’ reservations. While the official US version is that the War on Terror was launched to dismantle the terrorist network of Al Qaida after they carried out a series of terrorist acts against US interests outside USA and finally on 9/11 inside USA. , the opponents of the War on Terror believe that the 9/11 was just a hoax; or if did happen, then, it was an inside job conducted by the CIA and Mossad to establish some casus belli for implementing the Neo-Con agenda explained in their American Century Project to re-assert the American hegemony etc

On the other hand, sceptics maintain that the 9/11 may or may not be an inside job but the military-industrial complex used it brilliantly to advance their agenda of self-aggrandisement outlined in the 1997 document “Project for the New American Century”. Authored by Paul Wolfowitz it argued that the United States would remain the “unipolar global hegemon” and has been the underlying spirit of every National Defence Strategy and National Security Strategy issued since then. In 2012, General Wesley Clark revealed that the USA had already planned to to invade seven countries in five years.

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