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| And the brass knuckles came on. America's frontline agents in the war on terror have hacked into foreign banks, <strong>used secret prisons overseas</strong>, and spent over $20 million bankrolling friendly Muslim intelligence services. <strong>They have assassinated al Qaeda leaders, spirited prisoners to nations with brutal human-rights records</strong>, and amassed files equal to a thousand encyclopedias. |
We're still the good guys, right? "Spiriting" prisoners to places with "brutal" human-rights records? What, like, say...Iraq? Or as long as it's terrorists getting pins inserted under their fingernails, it's a good thing?
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| The tactics employed were basic enough. In newspaper ads, the Pakistani Army offered fat rewards for tips about strange foreigners. |
Well, it worked in the 1930s...
I know, I know...the ends justify the means. But any "war on terror" is only half-won by getting the people you know to be terrorists. The only way to truly end terrorism is to stop people choosing to become terrorists in the first place. And stamping big US footprints across the globe while pointing the finger and shouting "EEEEVIL" probably isn't the best way to do that.
Not only did the war on Iraq divert resources, it also convinced many in the Arabic world that the US is exactly the sort of war-mongering, imperialistic enemy that nutjobs like Bin Laden said it was.
