Why did USA went to war vs Afghanistan?

Question

Why did they went to war against those poor people? Could someone please tell, I really wanted to ask this a long time ago... "I'm not American"

Why???

I know they went to war vs Iraq for oil..

Answer 1

Well, Bin Laden was based there. In the late 90's until 9/11, the diplomatic situation between the US and Al Qaeda was deteriorating. Culminating in the missile attacks on Camps in Afghanistan. Bin Laden decided to escalate the conflict. Thus 9/11, the most devastating attack on US soil since the Civil War.



Bush demanded that the Taliban either hand Bin Laden over or force him to leave Afghanistan. But the owed hi for killing their rivals. They COULDN'T turn against him. So we invaded.



The Afghan people are far better off. The endless wars are over. Every time you hear of us accidentally killing civilians, it's far less than died every day during the civil war. Once we leave Iraq & put more troops there, Afghanistan will be rebuilt & peaceful.

Answer 2

We are in Afghanistan because of 9-11. We went there looking not only for Bin Laden, who is still there, but Al-Quaida and the taliban. We are not finished there by a long shot.



We went to Iraq, as per Clintons' plan, to oust Saddam Hussein and give the people of Iraq the chance to form a peaceful gov't of their choosing (and hopefully to gain an ally in the area). If we'd wanted their oil, we'd already have it, but instead we are leaving without that being any part of any future plan.

Answer 3

@Lance Your answer does not make any experience. the rustic purely did omit to Afghanistan and kicked out the Taliban on top of issues. And "not with one hundred nuclear bombs?" That many nukes might blow Afghanistan up. And sure their are Taliban contributors in Afghanistan nevertheless yet earlier the rustic went over there they have been on top of issues of the government and now their not. additionally the rustic did combat against Germany in WW2. They helped unlock France. (i comprehend im lacking plenty extra battles for the U. S. against Germany) the U. S. additionally did not lose against N. Korea using fact technically the conflict remains occurring and in the event that they did lose then it would purely be Korea and there does not be a S. Korea. And in case you seem on the casualties in the Vietnam conflict, the Vietnamese had plenty extra casualties. the rustic pulled out using public's help dropped (Like somebody else mentioned) And the rustic could not have "gained that's own civil conflict" That isn't smart. And if the rustic and China went to conflict then the rustic might win using fact evry part of that's protection tension is stronger besides China having extra infantrymen. China could not make it around the Pacific Ocean without being destroyed. not purely that in the event that they went to conflict, the rustic might keep billions of dollars from not procuring issues made in China and China might lose billions of dollars from the rustic not procuring something. final yet not least if China quite did make it into the rustic then they does not purely face US troops yet tens of millions of armed American civilians, which outnumbers China like one hundred to a million.

Answer 4

We thought bin Laden who had caused thousands of our people to die and billions in dollars of damage here was there. We should have used letters of marque which only require a necessary force, not outright war, but those haven't been used in hundreds of years and I don't think anyone but Ron Paul thought of them at the time.



However, the hunt for bin Laden turned to nationbuilding and vague 'interests in the middle east'. I assure you no Congressional declaration of war 'to build nations and protect interests in the middle east' was ever passed, and the US citizens did not approve that. Now, I think we should leave. That is one reason I wrote in Ron Paul in November. However, there weren't enough of us aware of the situation, or enough of us who agreed, one way or the other. Obama vaguely held himself out as 'antiwar' and many who thought Ron Paul would not win voted for Obama hoping to scale back the overall war there. I think he will do the opposite, but I hope I am wrong.

Answer 5

To try to secure an oil pipeline from the Caspian Basin to the Black Sea. Hamid Karzai, GW Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice are all former (and maybe future) oil executives.

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Condoleezza Rice was a Chevron Director from 1991 until January 15, 2001 when she was transferred by President George Bush Jr. to National Security Adviser. Previously she was Senior Director, Soviet Affairs, National Security Council, and Special Assistant to President George Bush Sr. from 1989 to 1991.



Another Chevron Corporation giant in the Bush administration is Vice President Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world’s largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Lawrence Eagleburger, a seasoned Bush counselor who held top State Department posts under George Bush Sr., is a director of Halliburton Corporation.



Halliburton's global network of investments includes projects in politically volatile areas including the Caspian Sea region. Dick Cheney was instrumental in negotiating a Caspian Sea pipeline for Chevron. The crude oil pipeline is a 900-mile project stretching from western Kazakhstan to the Black Sea that will primarily benefit Chevron by connecting the Tengiz oil field to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in Russia. Chevron, the largest oil company member of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, holds a 55 percent ownership interest with the Republic of Kazakhstan in Tengizchevroil. The 40-year, $20 billion joint-venture company was formed in 1993 to develop the Tengiz field. Tengiz is one of the world’s largest oil fields with 6 to 9 billion barrels of recoverable oil.



Also, there are allegations that the Bush Administration declared war in Afghanistan, not necessarily to combat terrorism, but to make it possible for U.S. oil interests to construct gas and oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to Pakistani harbors on the Indian Ocean. The first phase, now accomplish, was to install a friendly "puppet" regime in Kabul.

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Like so many other Neocon plans (all), this has turned out to be a colossal failure.

Answer 6

because of 911 and the terrorist are there and there is no oil in afghanistan

Answer 7

they attacked first...so the went to war with us. BUT FOR SOME REASON we were all like never mind we want to kill Saddam for some odd reason

Answer 8

oil mainly, and terriorist movements.

Answer 9

STUPIDITY