Hamster Buddha
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The 9/11 hijackers were almost all Saudis. They trained in American flight schools. They didn't need the Taliban in Afghanistan to pull it off.
Yes, its a politically corrupt and ineffective state. The world is full of Islamists looking to take advantage of such weakness. Once again, what is the point of helping them if they can't defeat ISIS? Defeating ISIS won't make Iraq a model of democracy and good governance, it will just move one bunch of Islamic thugs out so another can take its place.
You are neglecting the part where they were trained in Afghanistan, or how Al Qaeda, the organization responsible for the attack, was based in Afghanistan. Don't get cute with the facts please. And if it take Iraq putting the jackboot to it's people to get things in order, at this point, I'm all for it.