Joy Reid's Liberal Progressive History Of War In The 21st Century

Joy Reid: “That’s like asking why black folks don’t help or trust the police. After 9/11, we bombed Afghanistan in self-defense. Yeah, we did. And did that put an end to al qaeda or get bin laden? No, it did not. Because like Hamas, bin laden wasn’t in the country we were bombing. President Obama got him 10 years later in packkistan using special forces. Bombing Afghanistan did buy us a 20 year occupation that got us more enemies in the Muslim world when we scooped people off the battlefield and threw them in gitmo and when we threw in a war against Iraq based on lies by a Bush Administration that traded on our anger and fear, the world rose up against us as we committed torture and tossed former iraqi police and soldiers into makeshift gulags and those prisoners later turned into.”