Foreign Affairs
Related: About this forumNow that the CIA is arming rebels, shouldn't The War on Terror be declared a huge mistake?
US arms shipments to Al Qaeda, on 9-11 no less. No matter how you feel about recent events, that one fact confirms the inevitable Orwellian absurdity of the Terror fight as a whole.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-begins-weapons-delivery-to-syrian-rebels/2013/09/11/9fcf2ed8-1b0c-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)I'm just not sure the right word for it. It is Orwellian, though, mores the pity.
ehcross
(166 posts)It certainly was a war on terror. But I still don't know whose terror it was.
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xfundy
(5,105 posts)In fact, I was told in school that the CIA began promoting a change to the concept of "jihad," spreading propaganda that, rather than an "internal struggle," it should become outward violence against the Russians.
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