The Truth About The War on Terror They Don't Want You To Know
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The two decades since 9/11 have been a relentless story of death, terror and ruin on a mass scale. The so-called 'War on Terror' succeeded in doubling terrorist deaths while consuming Iraq and Afghanistan in blood and chaos, followed by catastrophic US defeat; while the drone war, the onslaught against Yemen and the fall of Libya unleashed even more carnage. Here is that story: of how the true horror has been airbrushed out of existence because the lives of the victims are deemed unimportant, while those responsible for the greatest crimes of our time remain venerated as statesmen.
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| 0:32.7 | This was the day that a two-decade long nightmare began. |
| 0:35.9 | On 11th September 2001, |
| 0:38.4 | thousands lost sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, |
| 0:41.5 | lovers, friends. |
| 0:42.6 | And from then on, many, many more would die. |
| 0:45.5 | In fact, the equivalent death toll of at least 309-11s |
| 0:50.0 | directly caused by the violence of the 20 years that followed. |
| 0:53.6 | 38 million people would be displaced from their homes |
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