By Scott Horton
December 30, 2019 - This is all wrong. The entire war on terrorism, and every bit of the suffering, spending and lost liberty that has come with it, has been an unnecessary evil.
At the time of the September 11, 2001 “attack”, which got this new era of war started, the enemy in Afghanistan numbered only 400 men. Their closest acolytes spread across the region added another few hundred. The George W. Bush regime could have negotiated their extradition. Barring extradition, special operations forces and CIA Special Activities Division paramilitaries could have made short work of the small number of al-Qaeda fighters, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, if only they’d been allowed to do so. The whole mess could have been over by New Year’s Day.













