The Taliban were widely recognized as the absolute worst, and sheltering Bin Laden was just icing on the cake. This was a close to national unity as anything will ever be.
The Taliban were widely recognized as the absolute worst, and sheltering Bin Laden was just icing on the cake. This was a close to national unity as anything will ever be.
The public, here in central Europe, was and still is mainly against the US invading countries for their own means.
(This is actually part of the reason so many of my generation learned to hate America for their actions in a early age)
And I feel like holding massive anti-US protests in the weeks after 9/11 would have been a huge talking point in the last twenty years.
On a side note I would be surprised if Wikipedia had a line for a few hundred young lefties demonstrating in a basically forgotten country like austria. When I say huge, I mean relatively, Austria ain't big. But there should be Media and pics somewhere I guess.
That's like a decade after the war started.
Even in the US, by the time of the Iraq War a significant chunk of the population had turned anti-Afghanistan war, but resistance was very limited in the month between September 11th and the start of the war.
Even today, I personally have no idea what the US went to do in Afghanistan. Iraq, at least, had oil. But, Afghanistan? What was the point?
(And in case you genuinely don't know: the Taliban were openly harboring Al Qaeda including Bin Laden. The US ordered them to either hand him over or allow the US to pursue him. They refused. So, the US eliminated the Taliban.)
Removed the Taliban from power, they still very much exist.
As the other poster said, Afghanistan's connection to 9/11 was clear, not even Afghanistan denied it.
But I'm curious why you say "yet another country." Between September eleventh and October seventh which other countries do you think the US attacked?