US invasion of Afghanistan was just a coverup to reopen the CIA heroin operation that Mullah Omar had ended. Mullah Omar would not give up Osama bin Laden unless George Bush furnished evidence which of course did not exist and the Afghani tradition of hospitality governs here. US stayed there 20 years to run the heroin plantations and for no other reasons.
100% correct. The entire Afghan war was about oil, heroin and embezzling money.
Afghanistan in itself had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. Nineteen Arabs met in the Middle East, flew to Germany, then the UK, then the US in 2000 and spent the next year planning their attack. They were persuaded by the khutbahs in some Saudi mosques and by one faction, the Al-Qaeda that predatory loans had murdered millions of Muslims, and the guilty parties were all those in the World Trade Center.
John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hitman proves that the predatory lenders did kill some Muslims (though the majority of their victims were non-Muslims), but Perkins had no idea who his employers were, they were very careful to hide their identity, even from their own employees, and almost certainly had nothing to do with the World Trade Center.
None of this or pretty much any foreign action they have taken in recent decades has anything to do with the safety of the US. But it's not exactly for fun either.
The entire game plan was oil and heroin. The soldiers who died in Afghanistan did so:
1. To make money for the military industrial complex
2. To make slush funds for the CIA from opium
3. To make money for mining corporations owned by Wall Street capitalists
4. To make money for UNOCAL building pipelines
5. To occupy a strategically located nation from which
(a) Iran was planned to be invaded from the east along with from Iraq in the west
(b) China was to be destabilized by pushing jihadi head choppers into Xinjiang
(c) Russia was to be harmed via the Central Asian stans in its backyard, which could be subverted and broken away from Moscow's orbit.
When it comes to the invasion itself, absolutely none of these reasons had anything to do with bin Laden, because the Taliban had actually OFFERED to extradite bin Laden to a third country for trial if evidence of his guilt was provided. US of A didn't even try and just invaded the country outright.
That's because the invasion of Afghanistan was decided long before the 9/11 attacks; specifically, the Imperialist States of America had decided on regime change from the minute Mullah Omar in 1997 decided to award pipeline rights to BRIDAS of Argentina instead of UNOCAL. And although bin Laden was in Afghanistan during this period (1996-7), the American government had absolutely no hesitation in negotiating with the Taliban at the time.