bighomieflockThis article is full of vague, theoretical bullshit. It basically is making a speculative guess that things would be better off without our involvement in the middle east. What does that mean for the future? Regardless of if the past war on terror was a mistake, we've reached a political climate where ISIS has shown a willingness to commit global acts of terrorism and there is no reason why their hatred for the non-muslim world would just gently disappear if we stopped our involvement.
It is another way at looking at these events. Also, it shows how little Americans cared about deaths in the Middle East verses France. I constantly posted about how horrible America bombing that hospital was and barely anybody cared.
I did not write the article obviously, just trying to open people up to other forms of thought. There are facts showing the increase in Suicide bombings before and after America intervened in these countries.
The following are quotes from Robert Pape
“I have the first complete set of data on every al-Qaeda suicide terrorist from 1995 to early 2004, and they are not from some of the largest Islamic fundamentalist countries in the world. Two thirds are from the countries where the United States has stationed heavy combat troops since 1990.
Another point in this regard is Iraq itself. Before our invasion, Iraq never had a suicide-terrorist attack in its history. Never.
Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been escalating rapidly with 20 attacks in 2003, 48 in 2004, and many more in the first five months of 2005.
Every year that the United States has stationed 150,000 combat troops in Iraq, suicide terrorism has doubled. [This year the figure tripled or quadrupled]
Many people worry that once a large number of suicide terrorists have acted that it is impossible to wind it down. The history of the last 20 years, however, shows the opposite.
Once the occupying forces withdraw from the homeland territory of the terrorists, they often stop — and often on a dime.
I think it depends not exclusively, but heavily, on how long our combat forces remain in the Persian Gulf.
The central motive for anti-American terrorism, suicide terrorism, and catastrophic terrorism is response to foreign occupation, the presence of our troops.
The longer our forces stay on the ground in the Arabian Peninsula, the greater the risk of the next 9/11, whether that is a suicide attack, a nuclear attack, or a biological attack.”
