Are US Wars Fueling Domestic Terrorist Threats? - The Nation

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" - Hosea 8:7

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/509506/are_us_wars_fueling_domestic_terrorist_threats_

Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan creating a domestic terrorist threat? The potential disaster of a Nigerian man attempting to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas day forces us to confront the question.

As the New York Times recently reported, there is increasing evidence that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fueling a radicalization of young Muslims in the United States who are angry about the military occupation of Muslim lands and the killing of innocent Muslim citizens. There are legitimate concerns that this may lead to more ethnic profiling, but I believe the lesson is that we need to end as quickly as possible the military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and call for an end to permanent war against Islamic terrorists.

What is needed now are not partisan fights about whether the Obama Administration was doing enough to guard against terrorist attacks in the wake of shootings last month at Fort Hood, Texas. Instead, we should question whether our overreaction to the crimes against humanity on 9/11 --including the creation of an endless "war" against terrorism-- has done more to undermine our security than enhance it. American safety will be better ensured through common-sense counterterrorism and homeland defense measures, including extensive intelligence cooperation expert police work and border control.

[L0oniX]

1. DUH !

We need to get our bases out of Islamic countries and quit interfering with them.

[tekisui]

2. Yes.

[AnOhioan]

3. Short answer....yep

[David Zephyr]

4. Of course they are. Thanks for the link to The Nation.

K&R.

[Mari333]

5. YES and YES and YES.

knr

[Echo In Light]

6. There's no $ to be made w/o creating enemies within a phony 'retaliatory' stance

And it would likewise be difficult to implement police $tate procedures/legislation/mentality domestically w/o it.

[earcandle]

7. There was once a Treaty of Tripoli....

[Goldstein1984]

8. Yes

I once asked my sons what they would do if I was killed for my political views or associations. They replied that they would unconditionally kill as many of the people who killed me as possible. This is human nature.

[kestrel91316]

9. Yes. I thought that was inherently obvious.

[Flaneur]

10. Gee, ya think?

[TheKentuckian]

11. SURPRISE... SURPRISE....SURPRISE!!!

We're a nation of cowards and fools.

[cali]

12. unfuckingdoubtedly. n/t

[Grey]

13. Is this a trick question?

[glitch]

14. Wasn't that the whole point? Terrorism the new revenue stream after Communism dried up? nt

[Echo In Light]

20. +1 ... and for furthering the domestic police $tate by leaps and bounds

[glitch]

21. And let us not forget the War on Drugs, an incredibly successful ongoing revenue stream. nt

[Echo In Light]

22. A$$ets up for grabs!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. It's the thriving bogeyman business.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[MadHound]

15. Well d'uh

Many of the people on the anti-war left having been saying that for what now, eight years. But hey, what's a few terrorist attacks on the US, just so long as the MIC keeps that money rolling in.

[StarfarerBill]

16. Ditto. K&R

[Solly Mack]

17. K&R

[amborin]

18. K&R

[Desertrose]

19. Seems pretty obvious.

[amborin]

24. kick

[Vidar]

25. Of course they are!. Our "War on Terror" funcitons mainly as a

recruitment drive for the Taliban.