The Iraq war relied on post-9/11 fears to push the narrative that Saddam Hussein had weapons that could be used to attack Americans.
The Taliban in Afghanistan were essentially blamed for training the terrorists said to have perpetrated 9/11. In the end, the wars did absolutely nothing to enhance either the freedom or the safety of Americans.
Hundreds of millions of Americans continue to pay for the wars through higher taxes to service war debts, and through the inevitable price inflation that has come after two decades of runaway spending.
Between the Patriot act, the TSA, countless abuses of the FISA court, and non-stop spying on peaceful Americans, the federal government's "War on terror" has largely been a war on Americans.
They all would have been forced into retirement and shunned years ago after overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a surveillance state at home.
In twenty-first century America it doesn't matter how many trillions are wasted on lost wars, how many Americans are sent to die in vain, or how many innocent foreigners are incinerated by American bombs.
Even worse are the despicable charlatans who cynically claim "Hindsight is 20/20" when anyone with any respect for freedom or the rule of law could see the evils that would follow the frenzy of new laws and wars that followed 9/11. Candidates or policymakers who insist the wars and the despotism have all sprung from "Good intentions" or that the likes of Cheney and Bush "Did their best" are not worth hearing from.
https://mises.org/wire/america-911-22-years-lies-and-despotism
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