Causes of war in Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
On September 11, 2001, a terrorist group by the name of al-Qaeda committed multiple terrorist attacks on the United States. The president at the time of the attack was George W. Bush. A man by the name of Osama Bin Laden was the head of the terrorist attacks. Bush made a demand that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden to the United States, but they of course refused and that is when the U.S. teamed up with some other countries including Germany and the United Kingdom and they proceeded to invade Afghanistan.
This terrorist attacks and the invasion lead to the United States going to war with Afghanistan. Since going to war with them the U.S. along with other countries have decreased the amount of power that the Taliban has over Afghanistan. The main cause of why the U.S. went to war against Afghanistan was to decrease the power of the Taliban in Afghanistan and to search for Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members. It was very difficult to find them though, due to the fact that many of them hid or fled to other countries such as Pakistan.
The U.S. for the most part succeeded in lowering the amount of power the Taliban had in Afghanistan and in May of 2011, a U.S. Navy Seal team raided the home of Osama Bin Laden and eventually killed him, which was a huge step forward for the U.S. in order to protect ourselves and other countries from another attack like the one we experienced on 9/11.
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Sources:
"Osama Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Raid, Buried at Sea." Washington Post. N.p., 02 May 2011. Web. 27 Nov. 2013.
"War in Afghanistan (2001–present)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Nov. 2013. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.
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