What ever happened to the GWOT?

[pecksniff]

20 years it's been. In 2001, radical Islamism seemed to be Threat Number One to Western civilization. Now, it seems like nobody talks about it any more. If the Afghanistan withdrawal weren't in the news, who would even remember there was a war there?

 

[adrina]

Like the war on drugs it became a grand source of wealthy fare. So the intent shifted from fighting terror to making rich folks richer.

 

[pecksniff]

Like the war on drugs it became a grand source of wealthy fare. So the intent shifted from fighting terror to making rich folks richer.

Well, it does that in terms of diverting a lot of money to the MIC.

But, a terrorist underground never was the kind of thing you could fight effectively with an army. That's like using a machine gun to rid a house of termites.

 

[CornusKousa]

20 years it's been. In 2001, radical Islamism seemed to be Threat Number One to Western civilization. Now, it seems like nobody talks about it any more. If the Afghanistan withdrawal weren't in the news, who would even remember there was a war there?

That's because Democrats and other leftist are Threat Number One to Western civilization.

 

[pecksniff]

That's because Democrats and other leftist are Threat Number One to Western civilization.

Which consists mostly of countries already far to the left of this one.

 

[CornusKousa]

Which consists mostly of countries already far to the left of this one.

Exactly.

And are largely no longer recognizable as part of Western civilization.

 

[pecksniff]

Exactly.

And are largely no longer recognizable as part of Western civilization.

They're Western civilization. We're the weirdo outlier.

 

[CornusKousa]

They're Western civilization. We're the weirdo outlier.

As always, you're backwards as can be

They've rejected Western Civilization.

You and yours openly hate and deride it.

 

[pecksniff]

As always, you're backwards as can be

They've rejected Western Civilization.

You and yours openly hate and deride it.

Western civilization is considerably older than anything we associate with America.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Americans will always need a boogeyman. Once the covid fatigue gets stronger, we will find something else to scare us to throw money at.

 

[CornusKousa]

Western civilization is considerably older than anything we associate with America.

Yet the USA is it's one of it's last torch bearers,

The modern left is out to destroy it because you lot hate it.