No easy exit: 25 years after 9/11, the US military has no way out of the Middle East | The National
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Source: The National (UAE)
Published: 2026-09-09 13:00 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 90
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Defence, Middle East, Military & Defence, World News, War & Conflict
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When Osama bin Laden ordered Al Qaeda attacks against America for September 11, 2001, he knew he could not directly defeat the US military. Instead, he opted to lure the US into a string of costly wars, in a strategy he later described as “bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy”.
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