based on site demographics I can’t be alone in this. immediately feels like 2004 never ended.
fuck every single person involved in conceiving and executing these actions, and the many who will make excuses for it.
EDIT: idk why I was so specific about the years. any fellow “war on terror” experiencers are the intended audience here.
Also the concurrent invasion of Afghanistan by NATO was considered a universal good like the very recent invasion of Yugoslavia (a different case of brain worms)