That's why I say that in the 70s, the most accurate military program on TV
was "F Troop."
I also liked this:
LINK
From the mouths of babes...
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Originally Posted by
TheCurmudgeon
We do succeed in one area you mentioned -- we are good at bringing people together based on a common enemy. The problem is it is usually us.
Bingo! Give the man his prize! :)
And thus you describe the primary driver behind AQ's Caliphate effort. If it was just AQ pushing, it wouldn't go very far. But as a hedge against centuries of Western interference? That is a different story.
The harder we attack the pusher, the greater the force of the pull...Time for a new plan. Then again, maybe a Caliphate is just what much of this region needs, and no threat to us so long as we are willing to work with them rather than against them for daring to have a plan for themselves that differs from the plan that we had mapped out for them.
This is in many regards a self-inflicted head wound. By getting our foreign policies re-tuned for the world we live in today, and by adjusting our ways and means for implementing those policies, we reduce much of the friction that is feeding the terrorism that is aimed in our general direction.