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Freedom News Digest: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 The Unnecessary War on Terrorism

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To claim the right to initiate the use of physical force against another man—the right to compel his agreement by the threat of physical destruction—is to evict oneself automatically from the realm of rights, of morality, and of the intellect.
— Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual [1961]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 14, 2022
The Unnecessary War on Terrorism
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, interventionists supported an invasion of Afghanistan.  Never mind that the federal government produced no evidence of complicity of the Taliban government in the attacks.  Never mind that there was no congressional declaration of war against Afghanistan, as the Constitution requires. Never mind that Afghanistan had been legally justified in refusing President Bush’s unconditional extradition demand for …
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