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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:09 PM Nov 2015

The Biggest Mistake In The War On Terror

was to use Americans' anger (and yes, ignorance) to attack a secular muslim country in lieu of fundie muslims, thus making the latter stronger and stronger.

We see a continuation of that policy today, destabilizing secular muslim countries that accept christians and minorities, which leads to the fundies gaining in strength and reach.

Now Europe is seeing the fruits of those policies and is itself being destabilized by the results of the actions of its leaders, who on the one hand supported jihadi rebels in Syria and on the other allowed unchecked masses of migrants into the heart of Europe.

In the future these leaders may be considered similar to Bush and Blair but for some reason the media and politicians only admit their mistakes when the time has passed to do anything about them.

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The Biggest Mistake In The War On Terror (Original Post) CJCRANE Nov 2015 OP
What do we do today? upaloopa Nov 2015 #1
The biggest mistake in the 'War' on 'Terror' Maedhros Nov 2015 #2

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. What do we do today?
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:15 PM
Nov 2015

The future depends on what we do today.

Hillary and Bernie agree that President Obama is on the right path concerning ISIS.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
2. The biggest mistake in the 'War' on 'Terror'
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 06:41 PM
Nov 2015

was eschewing a law enforcement strategy for belligerent large-scale military action.

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