{"id":36123,"date":"2021-08-29T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/29\/i-watched-bombs-falls-to-unleash-911-wars-two-decades-later-they-grind-on"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T07:00:10","slug":"i-watched-the-bombs-fall-to-unleash-the-9-11-wars-two-decades-later-they-grind-on-jason-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36123","title":{"rendered":"I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9\/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on | Jason Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Joe Biden\u2019s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?<\/p>\n<p>Many who heard President Biden\u2019s pledge to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/26\/joe-biden-white-house-crisis-kabul-explosion\" title=\"\">exact revenge<\/a> for the killing of 13 US Marines in an Islamic State suicide bombing in Kabul last week will have been struck by how closely they resembled the words of George W Bush almost exactly 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want justice,\u201d Bush then told a nation traumatised by 3,000 deaths in the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. \u201cAnd there\u2019s an old poster out west that says, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=121319&amp;page=1\" title=\"\">\u2018Wanted: Dead or Alive\u2019.\u201d<\/a> Bush is no longer president and Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks whose face was on the putative poster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/may\/02\/osama-bin-laden-dead-pakistan\" title=\"\">died<\/a> in a US special forces raid 10 years ago. But the rhetoric remains the same. \u201cWe will hunt you down and make you pay,\u201d Biden said on Thursday. Such language is unavoidable for the leader of a nation that retains and promotes a \u201cfrontier culture\u201d, as a veteran CIA official told me last week, but it signals much more too.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/29\/i-watched-bombs-falls-to-unleash-911-wars-two-decades-later-they-grind-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Joe Biden\u2019s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?Many who heard President Biden\u2019s pledge to exact revenge for the killing of 13 US Marines in an Islamic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,471,939,2291,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-islamic-state","category-joe-biden","category-september-11-2001","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36123\/revisions\/36124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}