It is worth learning this: Al-Qaeda was the biggest beneficiary of the “response” of the United States to 9/11 alongside U.S. corporations. America’s “War on Terror” produced far more terrorism in the world than there had been prior to that response.
Of all the arguments making the rounds after the appalling slaughter of 180 people in Mumbai, the worst is this: that India should learn from the United States about how to respond to such terror. “Look at the USA,” goes the refrain, “after 9/11 has there been another attack on U.S. soil?” In short, Washington’s measures after that tragedy were so effective, nobody ever bothered them again. This knocks at the doors of insanity. The U.S. “ ;response” does stand out as worth learning from. There is very little it did not get wrong.
Around 3,000 people lost their lives in the dreadful attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York on 9 /11. America’s response was to go to war. It launched two wars, one of against a country that had not a single link to the events of 9/11. Close to a million human beings have lost their lives in that response. That includes 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and nearly 1,000 in Afghanistan. That is apart from several hundred thousand Iraqis losing their lives. Countless Afghans die each month, as one of the world’s poorest states sinks deeper into devastation. (Afghanistan, for U.S. liberals, is “the good war.”) Millions have suffered dislocation and deprivation in the region.
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