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In reply to the discussion: Listening to the GOPers, they're all talking as if Farook's radicalization is like some alien curse [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And have, for much of the last 100 years, been screwing over Muslim countries with colonialist exploitative foreign policy, supporting oppressive dictators, arming jihadists, and extracting resources for our own enrichment.
Where do many of these terrorists come from? From Saudi Arabia, whose totalitarian leaders are close personal friends of our leaders, who exchange kisses with the Bushes. A country whose rulers we support as they grind their people into the dirt.
From other countries, whose people we murder with impunity from the air, whose governments we overthrow or attempt to overthrow, whose lands we steal to hand to those who hate them.
The US has been a 'bad country that fosters radicalism' for at least the last hundred years. We're not some sweet and innocent little victim. We're simply seeing our foreign policy chickens come home to roost.