Like Winter, you seem to have gotten hold of the idea that I’m defending or excusing US atrocities. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’m not an American, so I really don’t have a dog in that fight.

At its core, US culture is so steeped in violence that even if Islamic terrorism went away, we would still be massacring innocents worldwide. Can you think of another country that devotes so much of its budget to war, while people at home suffer?

15 years ago today, US Marines massacred 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including a 1-year-old and a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair. Then they peed on the bodies. None of the Marines served jail time.

Is the US partly responsible for the rise in Islamist terror? Almost certainly. But, at it's core, radical Islam is so steeped in violence - and always has been - that Islamist terrorism isn't going to go away if the US stops funneling money and support its way.

Can you think of another religion that approves of and carries out maiming and beheading for not following the rules?

The Islamists supported by the US (and Britain, let's not forget their part in this horror) were ALREADY radicalized. Muslims have been killing heretics since the inception of Islam.

Is there something intrinsic to Islam that leads to terrorism, or would it go away if the US stopped provoking, funding, and giving logistical support to Islamists? We’ll never know in our lifetimes. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/200...ist-islam/

The US has frequently encouraged Islamic terrorist groups when those groups are opposed to the Soviets, Assad, etc. Governments not obedient to Washington must be stopped at any cost. Then there’s predictable blowback. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-midea...SKBN1E82EQ

US-led aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc., has ruined far more lives than Islamic terrorism has. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magaz...error.html

Your needle seems to be stuck, Winter.

Wh, nobody hurts Muslims more than other Muslims, be it by wars, slavery, child marriages, gender discrimination, oppression, and sectarianism.

the link that proves infedels being the real supporters of the ugly image of extremist Islamic Jihad:

@Eleven that operation backfired and mutated wings streamed from it (like ISIS). Also it gave a justification for Right wing extremists like NZ's Tarrant

@Eleven this is the wikipedia article about the historical new operation which America spent billions of dollars on to arm and train Muslim Jihadists against the USSR

@Eleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

@Eleven America had a huge ressponsibility on its shoulders being the global empire that exists almost in every country. When it luanched its wars to control many parts of the world, one of the operations backfired and sent the world into a new era of hellish proxy wars:

I was wondering where all the nonsense had gone. Why am I not surprised?

Yeah, right "evil CIA" again. rofl

@BrianSoddingBoru4 you saw the real enemy but chose the comfort of your predated echo of propaganda that the CIA kept loading the world with.