Tomorrow will be the first day that a child born after 9-11 can enlist in the armed forces. That kid can go on to fight in the war that came out of 9-11.
What we now have, in that war, is a war in which, like a certain war fifty years ago, the bilge being spewed by
Same shit, different war.
On a global note, it's been pretty clear that what we've been doing has made the problem of extremism worse. Our current president closes his eyes to the extremist threat, unless they yell "Allahu Akbar". If they're Nazis or any similar ilk, they're "good people", according to the Orange Blob.
Not much changes in that regard, ever.
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Yea, the response we chose made ISIS what it is. Bin Ladin got exactly what he wanted, an American military presence in the Middle East that he could use to rally people against us. We were played quite well, and are still paying for it! Imagine if we had simply put our intelligence gathering to good use and located the leaders of the attack against us and taken them out surgically. Iran would likely not be the issue it is today with Iraq counterbalancing its moves, Syria and that mess never occurs, the movement of ISIS into Africa doesn’t occur, the rump of the attackers likely hunkers down to play insurgent warfare with the Russians and Chinese because we showed that playing with the Americans was deadly and didn’t get what they wanted. All because of an Administration hellbent upon removing a world leader...
.....and the Middle Eastern death toll from our knee-jerk reaction was at least 100x greater than that at Ground Zero, the whole Middle East was de-stabilized and Iran became the local super-power, hostile and theocratic, as the only power left standing. Yay.
Containment may not be sexy, but it's a whole Hell of a lot less costly and disastrous.
When you have a shiny hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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