19 Terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Secondary Source Text: Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, interview on 9/11, 20 years later: https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a37516293/lawrence-wright-911-20th-anniversary/

Secondary Source Text: “20 years on, question lingers about Iraq: Why did the U.S. invade?” (useful NYTimes article on war’s causes): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/world/middleeast/iraq-war-reason.html

Secondary Source Text: David Finkel on the “afterwar” experienced by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, for Guernica, 2015: https://www.guernicamag.com/the-afterwar/

Secondary Source Text: Anand Gopal, “How the U.S. Created the Afghan War, Then Lost it,” Guernica, 2014: https://www.guernicamag.com/anand-gopal-how-the-u-s-created-the-afghan-war-and-then-lost-it/

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