Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2770652" data-attributes="member: 56035">a summary of america war of terror:&quot;War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/afghanistan_war_out_of_sight_out_of_mind_201704062" target="_blank">invasion of Afghanistan</a> set out to defeat al-Qaida, and nearly 16 years later, we are embroiled in a losing fight with the Taliban. We believed we could invade Iraq and create a Western-style democracy and weaken Iran’s power in the region. The fragmentation of Iraq among warring factions has left Iran the dominant Muslim nation in the Middle East and Iraq destroyed as a unified nation. We set out to topple President Bashar Assad in Syria but then began to bomb the Islamic insurgents trying to overthrow him. We spread the “war on terror” to Yemen, Libya and Syria in a desperate effort to crush regional resistance. Instead, we created new failed states and lawless enclaves where vacuums were filled by the jihadist forces we sought to defeat. We have wasted a staggering $4.79 trillion on death, destruction and folly as our nation is increasingly impoverished and climate change threatens us with extinction. The arms manufacturers, who have a vested interest in perpetuating these debacles, will work to make a few trillion more before this act of collective imperial suicide comes to a humiliating end.&quot; - chris hedges</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2770652, member: 56035"] a summary of america war of terror: "War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The [URL='http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/afghanistan_war_out_of_sight_out_of_mind_201704062']invasion of Afghanistan[/URL] set out to defeat al-Qaida, and nearly 16 years later, we are embroiled in a losing fight with the Taliban. We believed we could invade Iraq and create a Western-style democracy and weaken Iran’s power in the region. The fragmentation of Iraq among warring factions has left Iran the dominant Muslim nation in the Middle East and Iraq destroyed as a unified nation. We set out to topple President Bashar Assad in Syria but then began to bomb the Islamic insurgents trying to overthrow him. We spread the “war on terror” to Yemen, Libya and Syria in a desperate effort to crush regional resistance. Instead, we created new failed states and lawless enclaves where vacuums were filled by the jihadist forces we sought to defeat. We have wasted a staggering $4.79 trillion on death, destruction and folly as our nation is increasingly impoverished and climate change threatens us with extinction. The arms manufacturers, who have a vested interest in perpetuating these debacles, will work to make a few trillion more before this act of collective imperial suicide comes to a humiliating end." - chris hedges [/QUOTE]

Verification