Special Forces #1

[history79]

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[jlbarnett]

I can't help but feel that people have dramatically changed the definition of empire for the purpose of saddling the US with it

Osama Bin Ladin was Saudi, but he was not a member of the Saudi government nor were the people who fought for him based there

[leahandillyana]

Every superpower on at least regional scale is an empire. Countries like Sweden, Austria or Lithuania used to be empires at different periods. The word should be used more often in America.
Saudi Arabia is the place where the dangerous, violent fanatism grew. Interferring in the matters of SA would actually be within the interests of the West, and the fact that they decided to attack a country that was already a fallen nation is a sign of cowardice and hypocrysy.

[jlbarnett]

it is, but in general wars are fought where attacks come from. Afghanistan didn't view itself as very fallen as it was willing to take in and protect those people and also thumbed it's nose at other nations frequently. See the destruction of the Buddhas