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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Calm Before the Jihadi Storm

The same U.S. policies that helped created al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s are today creating many al-Qaedas in many Muslim countries, promising to deliver future terror strikes that will make 9/11 seem like child’s play.

To understand this dire prediction, we must first examine the United States’ history of empowering Islamic jihadis—only to be attacked by those same jihadis many years later—and the shortsightedness of American policymakers, whose policies are based on their brief tenure, not America’s long-term wellbeing.

In the 1980s, the U.S. supported Afghani rebels—among them the jihadis—to repel the Soviets. Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and countless foreign jihadis journeyed to Afghanistan to form a base of training and planning—the first prerequisite of the jihad, as delineated in Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks at what happened when we armed Libyan rebels, they attacked the consulate and killed 4 people. Our government purposely arms the enemy to justify our use of military intervention.

lmclain said...

The people that make these weapons, bullets, bombs, and missiles don't give a rats ass about WHO gets killed by them. They have gated communities, armed security, and are not threatened by terrorism. It is to their every advantage to keep us scared to death about "terrorism". EVERYONE buys more guns and bombs!! The cycle never ends. Just like Eisenhower told us 60 years ago. Not too many people listened then. Ain't too many paying attention now, either. Just keep being afraid, like good little sheep.. Its working great. For them.