Glenn Greenwald writes:
We invade and occupy a country, and then label as "insurgents" or even "terrorists" the people in that country who fight against our invasion and occupation. With the most circular logic imaginable, we then insist that we must remain in order to defeat the "insurgents" and "terrorists" -- largely composed of people whose only cause for fighting is our presence in their country.
All the while, we clearly exacerbate the very problem we are allegedly attempting to address -- Terrorism -- by predictably and inevitably increasing anti-American anger and hatred through our occupation, which, no matter the strategy, inevitably entails our killing innocent civilians.
I suppose I don't get any points anywhere for predicting that this is exactly what was going to happen, 8 years ago. But I did.
One of these days, someone's going to listen to me before they invade another country. That'll be a good day for everyone.
No way dude. Our JDAMs of love are creating new, America-loving Iraqis and Afghanis everyday. Sure, some of them are dead, but just think how lucky they are to have met one of our love bombs personally?
and the paramilitaries that the usa funds illegally and in direct contravention of all laws and the Constitution that then wreak havoc and inflict violence on democratically elected governments and innocent civilians the usa labels “Freedom Fighters”.