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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDubya, 2007: "I firmly believe the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power."
Hate to say 'We told you so', you murderous half-wit, but no...it's much, much worse.
"Of all the prominent jihadi leaders, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), is among the most mysterious. And his mystique for now at least has only been burnished by his group's capture of the city of Mosul.
Described by some as "the new Osama bin Laden", he has a $10m US bounty on his head, only two pictures of him are known to exist and, contrary to his nom de guerre, he was born not in Baghdad but 78 miles north, in the city of Samarra.
Ambitious and violent, his reputation as a militant leader and tactician is as much a reflection of the disarray of other rebel groups in Syria and the poor showing of the Iraqi army this week."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/baghdadi-abu-bakr-iraq-isis-mosul-jihad
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(51,974 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)No matter who's in the White House, everyone else ALWAYS has good reason to worry.
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(51,974 posts)i don't think our foreign policy, particularly our military policy, has been at all admirable, but it's probably no worse than any other "#1" nation would impose on the rest of the world.
what we need is america and everyone else being find with not having a "world's policeman", etc.