I got as far as them re-litigating Joe Lieberman

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The way we fight terrorists is to decapitate the head of their organization. Pretty soon No one wants to be boss anymore.

    how long is “pretty soon”? 50+ years?

    also, the US doesn’t so much “fight terrorists” as it trains, arms and finances them to destabilize regions near US geopolitical rivals, and then get real shocked when all that blows back on US civilians. though it does seem to work up little baby brains into shoveling more money, bones, and blood into the military industrial complex. so maybe it’s a win-win?

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      it trains, arms and finances them to destabilize regions near US geopolitical rivals

      Hmm, that sounds familiar ukkkraine

      and then get real shocked when all that blows back on US civilians.

      I’m sure that definitely won’t happen though.

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        That’s the way al-Qaeda is now. They’re still taking out ISIS leaders every now and then.

        But that isn’t because US strikes, this is the case thanks to the massive efforts of Syria, Iraq and the Kurds. It was them who fought ISIS head-on in the battlegrounds around Tikrit, Mosul, Raqqa, Kobane, Palmyra and Deir ez-Zor. In fact, the Syrian Arab Army has been engaging Al Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s faction in Syria, for a decade now, and if it’s destroyed it’s largely thanks to Syria’s effort, all while at the same time Al Nusra quietly received weapons from a certain someone.

        Your “war on terrorism” is full of shit, brother, there is no such thing as war against ISIS from the US. ISIS, even at it’s largest extent, posed no threat to the United States, if anything their roots can be traced back to US interventions and financing in the region. Their bombings are nothing but a way to continue military occupation in said places, as evidenced in Syria.