Wow, I've been saying this for quite a while now, but never anywhere near as pithily as Glenn Greenwald:
Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS
recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for
years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus
anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in
that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it’s
more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those
outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and
strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the
ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless
War.
President Barack Obama makes a speech during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at Oslo Spektrum on December 11, 2009 in Oslo, Norway
Ugh. Truth!
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