It was a good idea for the U.S. military to go to battle in Afghanistan because it lead to the death of many terrorists, disrupted the Taliban network within Afghanistan, and it likely saved many lives. The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers in New York had killed a total of nearly 3,000 people making it the largest disaster in U.S. history. The Afghanistan War began in 2001 as a direct result of the attacks on September 11th, 2001. This war was made up of three phases. The first phase was finding the Taliban, the terrorist organization responsible for the 9/11 attacks. This phase was very short, lasting only two months. Pres. George W. Bush had given orders to the military for this phase and the next phase. The second
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In 1999, The United Nations ordered Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden for trial, but they never did. So Osama bin Laden along with other terrorist groups continued to cause chaos in Afghanistan. On September 9th, 2001 an Afghan political and military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, is assassinated by the Taliban. He was assassinated because he was against how the Taliban interpreted the Islamic religion. Just two days later, the U.S. is attacked by the exact same terrorist group. The U.S. responded by leading the bombing of Afghanistan with the Anti-Taliban Northern Alliance forces into Kabul. The following year, NATO sends out the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), starting a ongoing fight against the Taliban. In the summer of 2003, the security in Kabul is finally fully taken over by NATO …show more content…
base called Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, and thousands of leaked documents are published onto the web by a website called WikiLeaks. General David Petraeus of the U.S. military finally takes full command of the International Security Assistance Force (I.S.A.F.) and other U.S. military forces. Later that year of 2010, the Dutch military had quit in the war, and NATO gives control to their forces. In February, 2011, a record high civilian death toll is added by 8%. Now at about 3,000 deaths, and a suicide bomb death toll adds by a shocking 80%. On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden is finally killed by the U.S. military in Pakistan by order of Pres. Barack Obama. The same month, 500 Taliban prisoners escape Kandahar prison in Afghanistan. Just two months later, the Kandahar governor is killed by the Taliban along with Pres. Obama’s
In 1999, The United Nations ordered Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden for trial, but they never did. So Osama bin Laden along with other terrorist groups continued to cause chaos in Afghanistan. On September 9th, 2001 an Afghan political and military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, is assassinated by the Taliban. He was assassinated because he was against how the Taliban interpreted the Islamic religion. Just two days later, the U.S. is attacked by the exact same terrorist group. The U.S. responded by leading the bombing of Afghanistan with the Anti-Taliban Northern Alliance forces into Kabul. The following year, NATO sends out the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), starting a ongoing fight against the Taliban. In the summer of 2003, the security in Kabul is finally fully taken over by NATO …show more content…
base called Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, and thousands of leaked documents are published onto the web by a website called WikiLeaks. General David Petraeus of the U.S. military finally takes full command of the International Security Assistance Force (I.S.A.F.) and other U.S. military forces. Later that year of 2010, the Dutch military had quit in the war, and NATO gives control to their forces. In February, 2011, a record high civilian death toll is added by 8%. Now at about 3,000 deaths, and a suicide bomb death toll adds by a shocking 80%. On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden is finally killed by the U.S. military in Pakistan by order of Pres. Barack Obama. The same month, 500 Taliban prisoners escape Kandahar prison in Afghanistan. Just two months later, the Kandahar governor is killed by the Taliban along with Pres. Obama’s