On this day 20 years ago, the world was shocked by a terrorist attack ASV, which saved the lives of 2,977 people and changed forever attitudes and perceptions towards international terrorism. Significantly, this year marks the end of the military mission to Afghanistan launched following these terrorist attacks, which is once again a turning point that is changing international sentiment and confidence in the West’s ability to build lasting democratic rule in third countries.
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On September 11, 2001, four groups of terrorist suicide bombers crashed into the 110-story high-rise buildings of the World Trade Center, the “Twin Towers,” in New York City, which collapsed shortly after the impact. Another plane crashed into a Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and a fourth plane heading for the White House did not reach its destination and crashed in Pennsylvania.
The 9/11 attacks killed 2,977 people. Most people died in crashes New York high-rise buildings. Several thousand people were injured.
Shortly after the tragic events, the US government declared war on terrorism. Washington blamed for terrorist attack ‘Al Qaeda“leader Osama bin Laden, who is hiding in Afghanistan.
Shortly after this terrorist attack US Congress granted the then US President George W. Bush the right to use military force against terrorists. The war against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan began in October.
Bin Laden was found and killed in a US operation in Pakistan ten years after the 2001 terrorist attacks on 2 May 2011.
On August 31 this year, the United States officially ended its 20-year mission in Afghanistan. The last US soldier boarded the plane and took off from Kabul Airport shortly before midnight. The White House intended to end this war by the 20th anniversary of the terra duct.
Pictured below is Major Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, the last representative of the U.S. Armed Forces to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghan the war was experienced by the administrations of four US presidents. The mission began in 2001 George W. Bush, lived for two terms with it Barack Obama. Then came Donalds Trampswho promised to take Americans home and made a peace deal with “Taliban“but the withdrawal and evacuation operation was the responsibility of Joe Biden.
True, the end of the war was not quite as expected. With the announcement by the United States of the start of the withdrawal of the remaining troops, the Taliban began to take rapid control of the territory. The hopes of building a strong government and security forces in 20 years that will be able to protect their own countries without the support and back of US airspace are fading very quickly.
The last days of the Afghanistan mission for the United States and its allies turned out to be quite chaotic – The Taliban were able to carry out their offensive and infiltration in Kabul much faster than initially anticipated. Despite countless difficulties and challenges, Biden said he did not intend to hand over the military mission in Afghanistan to the fifth US presidential administration and continued to insist that Afghanistan leave by the 31 August deadline.
Consequently, the twentieth anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack is also expected with the disintegration of certain illusions about the West’s ability to build functioning and viable democracies in place of other nations. It is also disappointing that the progress made in 20 years in giving hope to a better life for Afghan men and women can be trampled on by the Taliban introducing their own conservative Islamic regime.
Following this experience, it is likely that, at least in the coming decades, large-scale US and Allied military interventions to overthrow despotic regimes and build democratic governance will no longer be considered a real option.
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