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2016-10-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pentagon still unsure of whether to link Islam with violent jihad

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Honesty or integrity are of course irrelevant to the decision during this administration. However the American people will judge General Dunford by the honesty of this document.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-10-08 02:33|| 2016-10-08 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Tell me again what the Barbary wars were about?

Posted by gorb 2016-10-08 04:23|| 2016-10-08 04:23|| Front Page Top

#3 In August 1988 some forty radicals met in Khost, Afghanistan, to declare war on the West. Al Qaeda was born, Osama bin Laden was its leader, and the organization had its own Imam to lead it in prayers. Bin Laden, his friend Zawahiri and others chose an Iraqi mujahideen to serve as their Imam. All were influenced by the atavistic Salafist philosophy of Ibn Tammaya. Yes, a radical preacher dead for centuries was alive and well, and he is the same radical who influences ISIL, Abu Sayyaf and the myriad crazies who inhabit Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the same radical who influences the radical wing of the international Muslim Brotherhood. I wonder what the Pentagon does to inform its fighting force of the history of Islamic radicalism? I'll bet not much.

Posted by Shick de Medici6262 2016-10-08 06:08|| 2016-10-08 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Progress is very slow at the Five-Sided-Nut. I can remember a time in the not too distant past when the 'Haqanni Network' was not considered a terrorist threat.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-08 08:56|| 2016-10-08 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Slow? compared to the pentagon, glacial flow is a top fuel dragster.
maybe in January the brakes will be released and chocks pulled.....
any more Stupid Donald Speaks tho' and iits all over

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-10-08 11:46|| 2016-10-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

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