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If the New War on Terror Is Fought Like the Last One…
[PJ] CIA agent Kevin Carroll wants a new war on terror. He wrote Monday: "We defeated al Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month. But only if we take similar hard measures against the enemy within." Trump supporters were offended by this, but it’s actually the best idea anyone has had since Donald Trump decided to go down that escalator and run for president.The new war on terror will not be fought only against those who want to overthrow the government. Carroll’s CIA colleague Robert Grenier told NPR Tuesday that "even at the seeming height of the crisis immediately after 9/11," he explained, "there really weren’t that many members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan." So it wasn’t only they who had to be hunted down. What was done to al-Qaeda and has to be done now, Grenier said, is "to remove the supportive environment in which they were able to live and to flourish." The "supportive environment" in which the Capitol rioters "flourish" is you, me, and Aunt Mabel, ordinary Americans who committed the crime of voting for Donald Trump. Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-07 |
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