same thing. leaders are vague about motives and objectives and why it benefits the american people. if afghanistan was really about bin laden, that was over a long time ago. if it was about proximity to china, politicians and media should have just said that. or if they were worried about foreign reaction implications they could have just had some media talking head pretend to speculate. lots of ways to spread knowledge like that. but after iraq and the freakout about wmds that turned out to be fake news(which plenty of people suspected from the start), people just don't trust the government's motives and justifications. that's a big problem in a democracy.
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