With all the hand-wringing and finger-pointing over events of the last two weeks in Afghanistan, two pivotal questions are not being discussed: Why were we there?; and what comes next? The LaRouche Organization insists that, until the truth about what happened on 9/11 becomes known, the same disastrous mistakes will be made again, next time on an even larger scale. Further, were these wars really mistakes, or instead were they deliberately designed, to keep the U.S. permanently ensnared in “endless wars”?