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The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.
Quintupling down are we? Never change, The Atlantic.
ETA: Not sure if there’s a paywall, so just in case: https://archive.ph/68sf0
Haven’t we already known this for, you know, 23 years?
People who actually paid attention have known; people who read The Atlantic not so much.
yeah. I even heard the bin laden guy was a saudi /s
I don’t understand how sarcasm applies. Not only was he a Saudi of enormous wealth and close ties to the royal family, he was a CIA asset for years.
6 December 1993: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace
these taliban guys are going to the top I say. Thanks Bin Laden for being a western ally against those horrible communists.
You know, communism/socialism is a failed model that has never succeeded.
Laissez-faire is the only economic model that has been 100% successful every time. Capitalism is the only way to stop the RED MENACE. /s
Now please lemmy/mbin. Commence your “tankie/russian bot” comments.
If man was meant to fly, it would have been given wings!
Not even the great genius Leonardo da Vinci managed to build a flying machine!
The sarcasm is that anyone who was paying attention knew all this 20 years ago.
Everyone was too busy pushing the war on Iraq and buying American flag stickers for 30 bucks a pop to notice, however.