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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (781134)4/22/2014 2:19:28 PM
From: one_less  Respond to of 1583588
 
>>>"I continue to be baffled by the belief in Washington that we can bomb a country illegally, kill and terrorize a population that is already living under a U.S.-installed dictatorship, and not generate the kind of hatred that takes the form of violent attacks against America."<<<

I don't know if you remember the Obama campaign perspective or not. But his perspective was that waging war on a front (like Iraq and Afghanistan) was ineffective. He repeatedly said we should target Al-Qaeda enemies where ever they are and attack them there. The political ramifications of that were never explained.