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20 Years after 9/11 – assessing the war on terror
Stop the War's CHRIS NINEHAM says Western foreign policy over the past two decades has been absolutely disastrous – but the warmongers haven't gone away
Smoke bollows from the destroyed World Trade Centre in New York following the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers

TWENTY years on from the tragedy of 9/11 the images of the chaotic cut and run from Afghanistan have exposed a deep crisis in Western foreign policy. 

The media has concentrated on the shambolic nature of the withdrawal. This revealed a failure of intelligence and the complete inability of the occupying powers to understand the situation on the ground. 

Just a few weeks before the Taliban victory, experts were insisting that the Afghan National Army would be able to hold the Taliban back for months, maybe longer.

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