Comment by vkou
5 hours ago
> If you attack a country, that country shooting back at any military installations in missile range has to be one of the expected outcomes.
Americans make war on other people, other people don't make war on Americans. It's one of the reasons why they are so eager to do so. 'The other guys might hit back' doesn't even register in the cultural psyche.
They hit back on 9/11 and it caused a panic that is still ongoing.
I'm no shill for the US, but that's a hot take that's too simplistic by far.
Eg who armed the Mujahideen?