What I am trying to point out is that any action will produce an effect. Whatever the reasons why the United States pulled out of Afghanistan after the end of the Cold War, that abandonment of the Afghans came back to haunt it. By intervening in the destabilization of the country and then not staying to help rebuild it in the early 1990s, the United States assisted in some way in creating the conditions for September 11.
— Yifa , Safeguarding the Heart