http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/
All the pundits seem to be lining up behind an escalation in Afghanistan, and I guess that's to be expected when some of them are Democratic pundits and the President is a Democrat. Thing is, it's totally at odds with public opinion, with about half the public thinking it's time to withdraw at least a little.
It's pretty much the same thinking that got us stuck in Iraq. This report produced by the Pentagon in 2004 (honestly, please just click the link and read, good stuff) pretty much fuckin' served the GOP for thinking that way, which is pretty amazing considering that the boss at the Pentagon was Donald Rumsfeld.
Basically, the report says that the Muslim world hates us for constantly getting them killed, and not because "they hate our freedoms" like your dumbass neighbor Jeff says. Oh, and also, everyone else in the world is starting to hate us too, and if you want friends on your side when you go to war, it helps that they don't hate you.
Yeah, some of the terrorists are just plain crazy, and there's no talking to them. But they wouldn't be getting by as well as they are if the non-terrorist people in the Muslim world didn't hate our asses too.
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