Thompson said this on 12 September 2001.
In the 21st century, the US conducted military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, NW Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Niger and the Horn of Africa.
America is no safer and no more prosperous.
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