After the bombing of two US embassies in East Africa [in 1988] by al-Qaeda operatives, State Department counter-terrorism official Michael Sheehan proposed supporting the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan against bin Laden’s sponsor, the Taliban regime. However, senior US military leaders “refused to consider it”, according to a 2004 account by Richard H Shultz, Junior, a military specialist at Tufts University.
A senior officer on the Joint Staff told State Department counter-terrorism director Sheehan he had heard terrorist strikes characterized more than once by colleagues as a “small price to pay for being a superpower”.
Even Newsweek has now admitted that the war on terror is wholly unnecessary.
Indeed, a former U.S. National Security Adviser told the Senate that the war on terror is “a mythical historical narrative”.
See also this Los Angeles Times Article, reviewing a BBC documentary entitled “The Power of Nightmares”, showing that the threat from Al Qaeda has been vastly overblown (and seethis article on who is behind the hype).
If you still believe that the war on terror is necessary, this may be why.
" the war on terror is “a mythical historical narrative” : on y est là !!!!