If we desire to know more about the real world and our policies, we would also find out that Osama bin Laden was among those involved in the Afghan resistance during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the Afghan resistance was referred to by former President Ronald Reagan as "freedom fighters." The resistance fighters got weapons and money from the United States to fight the Soviets. The policy was started during President Jimmy Carter's last year in office and continued through 1989.
We actively encouraged Islamic radicals to fight our proxy war. We used their intolerant Islamic views when it suited us, and dumped them once the job was done. The rest is history.
It also behooves us to know that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 attackers were Saudi Arabian and not one was Iraqi.
The Iraqi invasion was launched by a predominantly white Christian force of American and British soldiers in an alien, oil-rich Arab secular nation, which has now, because of the invasion, become a radicalized safe haven and a training ground for Islamic extremists, who were not allowed to operate there during Saddam's secular tyranny. What we did is the reason the madmen of Islamic terror and Al-Qaeda are thriving and finding willing recruits to do their evil bidding now. They did not exist there before and now do.
No matter how a neo-con ideologue tries to spin it or lie to us, the insurgency is not in its "death throes." We may have to wait another 25 years or so before we liberate their abundant oil reserves.
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