{"id":317392,"date":"2021-09-19T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T08:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=214131"},"modified":"2021-09-19T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T08:55:54","slug":"the-war-on-terror-twenty-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/19\/the-war-on-terror-twenty-years-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Terror: Twenty Years and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_214721\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214721\" class=\"wp-image-214721 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jordy-meow-Osd4ngHD4kM-unsplash-680x454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-214721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jordymeow\">Jordy Meow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the War on Terror in its twentieth year, thrust back into the public discourse with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Linda Sarsour, prominent Palestinian American activist and thinker, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindasarsour.com\/bio\">the national co-founders of the<\/a> Women\u2019s March (the largest single day protest in U.S. history), expressed what has been the core experience over the last two decades, \u201cUnfortunately, we\u2019ve been sitting around for twenty years, watching people who look like us, who pray like us, die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Sarsour noted, the past two decades have been devastating for people within the U.S. but especially for those living abroad, especially those in the Central Asian and Middle East region. From the drone strikes of weddings to now, leaving a political vacuum for groups like the Taliban to re-emerge and reconquer, U.S. involvement, justified by the War On Terror, has left countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, utterly \u201cdecimated\u201d, Sarsour said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/?wcm_redirect_to=post&#038;wcm_redirect_id=214131\">log in<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">or Subscribe.<\/a><br \/>\nIn order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/19\/the-war-on-terror-twenty-years-and-counting\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/19\/the-war-on-terror-twenty-years-and-counting\/\">The War on Terror: Twenty Years and Counting<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/19\/the-war-on-terror-twenty-years-and-counting\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Jordy Meow.<\/p>\n<p>With the War on Terror in its twentieth year, thrust back into the public discourse with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Linda Sarsour, prominent Palestinian American activist and thinker, one of the nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,228,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320566,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317392\/revisions\/320566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}