That's a large collective weight that I think probably we as a country need to carry." And I think that more Americans should feel more shame about our lack of ability to provide a better future for them (the Afghans) over 20 years," Crowe said. "I think it's just desperately heartbreaking. Was it worth it in the grand scheme of things? You know, who knows?" Crowe told ABC News. Some folks had access to health care that they might not have gotten. "Some folks got an education that they might not have gotten. The Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan in 2001 and provided safe haven to al-Qaeda, is back in power, renewing fears the country will once again become a base for terrorism. The war in Afghanistan spanned the administrations of four presidents and the eight-year Iraq War, only to end last month with the chaotic withdrawal of American troops and the deaths of 13 more military service members, four born the same year as 9/11. Others who answered their country's patriotic call to hunt down those responsible in the alleged al-Qaeda safe haven of Afghanistan now question if it was worth the sacrifice of more than 2,400 American soldiers. Millions more, like Patricia Smith, were too young to comprehend the destruction and the metamorphosis that followed.īut some of those with vivid memories are still haunted by the epic intelligence failure that preceded the coordinated attacks. More than 70 million people living in the United States, according to yearly birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had not yet been born on 9/11.
"We obviously wanted Americans to live their lives as normally as possible, but to understand that we live and operate in a very dangerous world where there are people, there are organizations, there are groups that don't have very kind views about our way of life, about our values," Gonzales told ABC News.
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