TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 2001, the war in Afghanistan started as the United States and Great Britain launched air attacks against military targets and Osama bin Laden's training camps in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Thousands of families were grappling with the deaths of their loved ones in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 and the American public was coming to terms with the reality of an enemy unlike any the nation had faced before -- a shadowy network of terrorists that orchestrated the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.
Security experts appear to agree that original goal of Operation Enduring Freedom seems to have been accomplished, but the question of whether or not America is safer today remains up for debate. "In Afghanistan, the Taliban is currently not a threat to the United States, to the U.S. homeland. It clearly battles [the] U.S. military in Afghanistan but is not motivated to conduct attacks against the U.S. homeland and does not attempt to do so," Felbab-Brown said of the current state of the threat from Afghanistan.
Kolenda pointed to the costly nature – both in terms of lives lost and money spent -- of what has now turned into America’s longest war. Five years later, when then-President Barack Obama ended combat operations in Afghanistan, he said the core of al Qaeda leadership had been devastated, Osama bin Laden had been killed and terror plots had been disrupted.
Why are we continuing to train these Afghanis who then shoot our soldiers in the back? Afghanistan is a complete waste. Time to come home! "Over the last 18 years the U.S. has dramatically improved its ability to prevent attacks by foreign terrorist groups," he said."Unfortunately however, those same counter-terrorism capabilities are ill-suited to address the current threat facing the United States.
A 2015 assessment of the current terrorism threat environment by the National Counterterrorism Center acknowledged that 9/11-style catastrophic attacks were less likely because of consistent counterterror pressure.
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