America’s longest war was founded on false pretences

The war in Afghanistan ended as it had started, with total ambiguity of its objectives well what achieved. official Western narrative 2001 was that “everything changed” on the day four airliners were hijacked and nearly 5,000 people murdered. US intervention Afghanistan, by this account, hastily improvised less than a month. However, decisions shaping military campaign show remarkable continuity based an ongoing pre-September 11 evolution foreign policy. As matter fact, operations did not begin 20 years ago. But 1979, during presidency Jimmy Carter.