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bleeding war" in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's goal was to recreate the quagmire that bled dry the Soviet Union in the 1980s with America as the victim. George W. Bush gave him a bonus — a war in Iraq that bin Laden's protege Abu Musab Zarqawi turned into a civil war. Al-Qaeda's December 2009, attack on a Detroit
n the 1980s with America as the victim. George W. Bush gave him a bonus — a war in Iraq that bin Laden'
n in the 1980s with America as the victim. George W. Bush gave him a bonus — a war in Iraq that bin L
ilitary Council, which post gives him authority over several thousand troops. 3) Key NTC figures whose political base is in Benghazi, Al Bayda and Tobruk in eastern Libya—the cradle of the uprising—and who are well represented in the NTC and who aspire to high political office but hail from western L
em, they turned to terrorism only when they were unable to bring about the grand popular revolutions they sought. Perhaps the worst mistake of the Bush administration's response to 9/11 was to make terrorism itself America's principal target. Terrorism was never more than a symptom of this dysfunct
aside though it was — at least deserves credit for finally recognizing the real source of America's problems in the Middle East. The great shame of George W. Bush's presidency is that the war on terrorism was not a smaller adjunct to that broader effort, rather than the other way around. We have no one but our
ems in the Middle East. The great shame of George W. Bush's presidency is that the war on terrorism w
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
em, they turned to terrorism only when they were unable to bring about the grand popular revolutions they sought. Perhaps the worst mistake of the Bush administration's response to 9/11 was to make terrorism itself America's principal target. Terrorism was never more than a symptom of this dysfunct
aside though it was — at least deserves credit for finally recognizing the real source of America's problems in the Middle East. The great shame of George W. Bush's presidency is that the war on terrorism was not a smaller adjunct to that broader effort, rather than the other way around. We have no one but our
ems in the Middle East. The great shame of George W. Bush's presidency is that the war on terrorism w
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
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