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    Default The U.S. squandered the world’s sympathy by invading Afghanistan and Iraq.

    In a 1999 memo to his lieutenants in Yemen, unearthed subsequently by the U.S. army and cited in my book “The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global,” Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is now the head of al-Qaeda, tried to convince the group that attacking the United States was the only way to resuscitate a dying Islamist militant movement.

    Zawahiri wrote that if the American homeland were attacked, the United States would lash out angrily not just against the Islamist militants , but also Muslim nations. This would allow the Islamist militants to portray themselves as defenders of the ummah, or the Muslim community, and gain more followers.

    Zawahiri’s strategy worked. At the height of its prowess in 2001, al-Qaeda’s membership did not exceed 1,000-2,000 combatants. Twenty years into the War on Terror, there are approximately between 100,000 and 230,000 active Islamist militants in dozens of countries worldwide.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...essons-defeat/


    Agree with this. Unfortunately, requires too much thinking for many people. Easier to bash Biden.

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    Invading Iraq was the most ill-conceived and unnecessary conflict. It's shameful.

    And it was impossible to make that argument back then. Opponents were called "traitors" and "terrorist sympathizers."

    Now, the very same people who called the left those terms are all "hey now, that was SO long ago" and "of course it was a mistake."

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    YEAH...ATTACK AMERICA TO TRY TO COVER FOR PRES.MORON'S DEBACLE...WHICH HAS COMPLETELY TANKED US CREDIBILITY.

    NO US PRESIDENT WAS HELD IN CONTEMPT OVER AFGHANISTAN BY PARLIAMENT, OUR #1 ALLY, UNTIL NOW.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    "As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, it is worth asking what if the United States had acted radically and imaginatively eschewing imperial overreach?

    What if instead of launching a War on Terror, the greatest strategic disaster in the United States’ modern history, U.S. leaders had used 9/11 as a catalyst to bring about a more tolerant, peaceful and prosperous world, the antithesis of al-Qaeda’s worldview?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    YEAH...ATTACK AMERICA TO TRY TO COVER FOR PRES.MORON'S DEBACLE...WHICH HAS COMPLETELY TANKED US CREDIBILITY.
    I expected you to ignore the editorial.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    Invading Iraq was the most ill-conceived and unnecessary conflict. It's shameful.

    And it was impossible to make that argument back then. Opponents were called "traitors" and "terrorist sympathizers."

    Now, the very same people who called the left those terms are all "hey now, that was SO long ago" and "of course it was a mistake."
    The same President invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. What does that tell you? Same intention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I expected you to ignore the editorial.
    NO US PRESIDENT WAS HELD IN CONTEMPT OVER AFGHANISTAN BY PARLIAMENT, OUR #1 ALLY, UNTIL NOW.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    NO US PRESIDENT WAS HELD IN CONTEMPT OVER AFGHANISTAN BY PARLIAMENT, OUR #1 ALLY, UNTIL NOW.
    And the nonsensical stuff. I thought about banning you but why bother.

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    "Edgar Buckley describes how NATO invoked Article 5 on 12 September 2001, 24 hours after the terrorist attacks against the United States."
    https://www.nato.int/docu/review/art...e-5/index.html

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    "Instead of building on this goodwill and solidarity, however, the United States embarked on a two-decade, all-out war against enemies both real and imagined. In doing so, it squandered a historic opportunity to work together with other nations to undo the harm of its Cold War policies, which contributed to the emergence of al-Qaeda."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    "Edgar Buckley describes how NATO invoked Article 5 on 12 September 2001, 24 hours after the terrorist attacks against the United States."
    https://www.nato.int/docu/review/art...e-5/index.html
    whoever that is. don't care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    And the nonsensical stuff. I thought about banning you but why bother.
    THE FACTS ARE "NONSENSICAL"?

    THE POTUS HELD IN CONTEMPT BY PARLIAMENT IS "NONSENSICAL"?

    WE HAD OVER A DOZEN NATIONS GO WITH US INTO AFGHANISTAN, MORON.


    OUR CREDIBILITY WAS SOARING.


    PRES.MORON SURE FIXED THAT....THE ONLY US POTUS EVER HELD IN CONTEMPT BY PARLIAMENT.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    THE FACTS ARE "NONSENSICAL"?

    THE POTUS HELD IN CONTEMPT BY PARLIAMENT IS "NONSENSICAL"?

    WE HAD OVER A DOZEN NATIONS GO WITH US INTO AFGHANISTAN, MORON.


    OUR CREDIBILITY WAS SOARING.


    PRES.MORON SURE FIXED THAT....THE ONLY US POTUS EVER HELP IN CONTEMPT BY PARLIAMENT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    ABCDEFG
    JUST CAN'T FACE THE CATASTROPHE THAT WILL ALWAYS BE PRES.MORON'S ALBATROSS, CAN YOU???

    IT'D BE PATHETIC IF IT WEREN'T SO FUNNY...
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    JUST CAN'T FACE THE CATASTROPHE THAT WILL ALWAYS BY PRES.MORON'S CAN YOU???

    IT'D BE PATHETIC IF IT WEREN'T SO FUNNY...

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