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uh... business insider had this article by a guy named jeffrey ingersoll this is
a guy i i actually i've never had a piece of his before
but he wrote a fantastic peace
the title of it is the absurdity of the war on terror is becoming clear
poses some i've been saying for a long time this is a lot of people of the same
for a long time
but he keeps his set out in very clear terms as to why that's the case
uh... yeah man has very strong branch of al qaeda in the arab peninsula
and what they did is they put out a call from global g hotties
to make a pilgrimage tamale
to wage holy war
on the infidel occupiers
and other words the french who are now playing war there
and we've also provided a to then be a
uh... transportation stuff like that
so the interesting thing about this is that this is exactly like iraq into
balance six
when diac high branch in iraq
uh... reached out to let me in
g hotties and fighters and said hey come help us out here
uh... so current reports are that
the toughened molly in insurgents
are basically hanging out in the mountains of dale
where they planning stage attacks all the time against the french troops
and that's the scenario that right out of afghanistan in two thousand and two
uh... with an influx of weapons from libya and global jihad is joining the
battle
the fighting could last
long as the eye can see
uh... and the most recent counterinsurgency fights have started a
decade ago and we are still
this is the endless war on terror
that we've been discussing
so while molly is iraq alike
actual or rack is still suffering from suicide bombers
thailand had just killed nineteen militants
fending off of really balls the assault
syria has devolved into a stalemate
between a hair-trigger dictator and then narrowly less than preferable extremist
element
of jackpot al news for oil which is another type of branch of al qaeda
lebanon is getting sucked into serious civil war
and how should be even somalia is receiving on from iran
another group that sakai alike
people are already pointing it to an imminent fight
with the islamic vocal her rom and others in molly's neighboring niger
and fighting in mali isn't even finished yet
so
what's the big take away from this
the last line of jeffrey ingersoll species very telling a very true
he says quote
for every mall america takes out
more rise
now some people might counter this and say okay even if that's true
what does that mean we don't we'll fight 'em is that what that means
so what do you just want to give up eccentric right
but then comes the next big piece of evidence which is probably the most
important piece of evidence
so
according to some research that was done all the way back in two thousand seven
by the center on law and security at the end why u foundation
they found
that terrorism before at the invasion of iraq there are seven hundred twenty nine
separate isolated incidents
after the war in iraq
five thousand
four hundred and twenty
uh... this research is also buttressed
by
the u_s_ administrations almit national intelligence research
uh... they found in the study quote
trends in global terrorism implications for the united states
they found that the iraq war has become
because for g hottest spanish shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders an
opportunist
and then there's another study by
peter bergen and pull cruickshank from around the same time
that argues that iraq conflict has greatly increased the spread of al qaeda
is ideological virus
so basically to put it as simple and straightforward as possible
the reality is
that the war on terror as we are fighting it right now
is actually
and ink to terrorism it is increasing
terrorism
it is it is supporting more hatred for the united states
and for our policies
so
the question becomes how do you fight effectively right
it should be for like historically has always been fought until the war on
terror
which is
targeted intelligence meant you at the c_i_a_ in the f_b_i_ handle it
you don't use to steal from two thousand any crop obama you don't use uh... a
hatchet where you can use a scalpel
and now has become the official position of both parties
did you know
in afghanistan
were still there right
we have sixty eight thousand troops pero mommy just announced in the state in the
s_l_ lowered two thirty four thousand truth is totally cool told the court
even tell you that after two thousand fourteen were supposed to be gone
forever
we're so they're happy thousand troops there right
you are not how many
people were fighting there how many members about hightower in afghanistan
but yet we have sixty eight thousand
and even if we were drawn at thirty four thousand still way too many men we were
great thousand which is going to the prominent now we we've been there
estimate
and having a bad doesn't breed hatred because we do end up accidentally
killing civilians
we know end up
uh... being
the infidel i'll keep ir in the heart of the holy land
i mean
even the most basic things in the world are not the smartest guy in the world
by military post illegal for
how do we want to try to decrease the amount of terrorism or not
i mean the way to do it is to be smart have largely in on interventionist
foreign policy
mind our own business
do actual
defense
do actual national defense not national offense
close up some of our nine hundred military bases abroad why do we need all
those
right cut the military budget at least in half
'cause we spend more than the next fourteen biggest military's combined
i mean these things are a great urs man i've been saying that there's other
people have been saying them for years
we've been right all along and we're continually ignored why because of the
military industrial complex
war is a business
of very small group of people make a lot of money
by perpetuating these wars
so that's what we've been doing as a matter of national policy and it's
sickening