"the war on terror" is often framed in the sense of the US fighting Islamic fundamentalists, but its really the other way around, the US was the "terror" here all along
I wonder why the army we set up are melting away instead of fighting for our corrupt puppets resource extraction schemes and galaxy brained geopolitical goals their freedom?
Once they establish their rule and do whatever horrible shit they are going to do following that, the violence will taper off. Or maybe we'll just make up more reasons to keep drone bombing them.
The more I look back to the Dubya era - the more I am sort of amazed that in 2008 a super-militaristic GOP ghoul (or an equivalent dem ghoul) didn't become president. Drone strikes? Why bother? Just kill 'em all.
If Obama had never existed and Trump announced his campaign for president (either as a republican or dem) in 2007 could he have won?
In retrospect - Obama was a black swan who appeared and forced reality to go in a different direction from where the US was likely headed.
They ran out of space. Saddam Hussein stuff is in the lowest level in the 9/11 Commemoration Area — Sponsored by Saddam Hussein™ featuring a food court, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, billiards, big screen tvs, and cleric approved video games.
Didn't they offer to turn over bin Laden or something? But the US and Europe basically get to define words to mean whatever they want anyways :shrug-outta-hecks:
The US military didn't tip off the Pakistan government about the mission to kill bin Laden on Pakistan soil because several Pakistan officials are friendly with the Taliban, and knowledgeably let bin Laden live in peace in his compound.
So in "the war on terror", terror is the winner
"the war on terror" is often framed in the sense of the US fighting Islamic fundamentalists, but its really the other way around, the US was the "terror" here all along
At least the taliban won't be filling the skies with drones and randomly bombing weddings and farmers.
It is the belief that any gathering where males are present must be a terrorist operation getting ready to go. There are no weddings in Afghanistan.
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I wonder why the army we set up are melting away instead of fighting for
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Once they establish their rule and do whatever horrible shit they are going to do following that, the violence will taper off. Or maybe we'll just make up more reasons to keep drone bombing them.
That is the violence though.
I'm not sure drawing out the conflict indefinitely is a better option.
No, it's not.
Just like the war on drugs
The Taliban isn't really "terror" is it? Just an extremely reactionary group.
They sheltered Osama bin Laden, so they got the tag.
Of course it was Pakistan where they found him hiding.
I love how Bin Laden's compound was a few miles away from what the US media called Pakistan's West Point.
Yet the fever dreams about where he was hiding were so different. In this example - he's like a James Bond villain hiding in a super-duper entirely impossible bunker
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The more I look back to the Dubya era - the more I am sort of amazed that in 2008 a super-militaristic GOP ghoul (or an equivalent dem ghoul) didn't become president. Drone strikes? Why bother? Just kill 'em all.
If Obama had never existed and Trump announced his campaign for president (either as a republican or dem) in 2007 could he have won?
In retrospect - Obama was a black swan who appeared and forced reality to go in a different direction from where the US was likely headed.
I don't see the Saddam Hussein indicator anywhere.
They ran out of space. Saddam Hussein stuff is in the lowest level in the 9/11 Commemoration Area — Sponsored by Saddam Hussein™ featuring a food court, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, billiards, big screen tvs, and cleric approved video games.
Didn't they offer to turn over bin Laden or something? But the US and Europe basically get to define words to mean whatever they want anyways :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yes, multiple times both before and after 9/11. Bush didn't give a fuck and only wanted a war.
The US military didn't tip off the Pakistan government about the mission to kill bin Laden on Pakistan soil because several Pakistan officials are friendly with the Taliban, and knowledgeably let bin Laden live in peace in his compound.