Tom Elliott reflects on September 11 attacks 25 years on

0:00Okay, so 9-11, as I mentioned a couple times, I remember watching TV that night and When I saw the first plane flying to the world trade set in a tower I couldn't believe it. I just thought that is the most incredible tragedy perhaps that we have one of the worst Accidents involving an airplane I never heard about and then of course a few minutes later Another plane slammed into the other tower and he realized this was not an accident because there's no way it could happen twice Accidentally it was an attack we later learned that some of it laden was behind it. He was actually Saudi Arabia The Americans went into Afghanistan within or we could too trying to hunt him down And they almost caught him but they didn't and in fact he wasn't caught and when he was caught it was inside Pakistan about 10 years later And that led to an ill-fated war in Afghanistan by ill-fated. I mean that When you start or when you go into a war you have to have a very clear idea about what you're doing What are we trying to achieve? Yeah World War II we are gonna beat the Nazis. We are gonna beat the Japanese

1:05Vietnam not so clear career, you know at least defend South Korea from North Korea and so forth Anyway, I remember the the Afghan war went through phases. It was fine to some of it in Laden and then it was regime change kick out the Taliban and Then it was you know helped the Afghani people transition into a democracy and then it was something else And we said a lot of troops there and quite a few died and many more got badly wounded and Britain sent troops and America sent troops The 20 years later we pulled out Joe Biden pulled the Americans out and that was it and nothing was achieved the Taliban are back in power They're just as oppressive as they ever worked 18 months after 9-11 George W Bush the younger George Bush presidents his father was the president in the late 80s and early 90s he decided to finish the job that hadn't been finished in Iraq so 1990-1991 Coalition forces booted the Iraqis out of Kuwait and they tried to smash up as much of the Iraqi military as they could

2:05But they didn't set them the same as still in power and just over a decade later in the wake of 9-11 They decided to go back in that now said him insane had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks Probably supported them, but he didn't actually do it But the Americans went into Iraq and that frankly was a disaster as well Iraq is still a mess They're intervening in Iraq led to the creation of Islamic State contributed to the Syrian civil war and Now we've got you know since October 7, 2020 On going hostility between Gaza and Israel so what I some have been like was trying to do Was to draw America into unwinnable wars in the Middle East And in that he succeeded 3,000 odd people died on the morning of 9-11, but the wars that resulted from 9-11 You could times that number by several hundred. That's how bad it was So 9-11 and the wars in Afghanistan Iraq the crash of Islamic Islamic State all that's been a disaster for the West

3:05We've spent millions of dollars with lost thousands of lives We've created countries which are not friendly to us at all Very little I'm afraid it's been achieved and that is exactly exactly what Osama Bin Laden wanted One of the three six-dine three mornings at 3aw.com.au but the problem was at the time If you'd said to the Americans don't retaliate they would laugh at you of course we're going to retaliate America has been attacked New York City the home of capitalism has been attacked in the most visceral way possible you know the world trained said to brought down by hijacked airline is of course I was going to retaliate in last shot and they did