Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
President Trump gave a speech in which he explained why he\u2019s changed his mind on pulling out of Afghanistan: it would create a power vacuum and enable the Taliban to sweep in.\u00a0 Instead, we\u2019re going to stay and kill terrorists until conditions on the ground allow us to leave.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not going to engage in nation-building.<\/p>\n
Great, he\u2019s going to pivot to Afghanistan and focus like a laser on killing terrorists.\u00a0 Where have I heard that before?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t object to killing terrorists but why aren\u2019t we nation-building?\u00a0 Because nation-building was proposed as the cure for the root cause of terrorism but it turns out the root cause of terrorists is not poverty or lack of democratic institutions.\u00a0 Establishing a puppet regime with purple-finger elections and midnight basketball won\u2019t stem the flow of terrorists so we\u2019re not going to waste time and money doing it.<\/p>\n
Fine.\u00a0 If that\u2019s not the root cause, what is the root cause of Islamic terrorism?<\/p>\n
I suspect the root cause of Islamic terrorists is radical Islam, even if everybody in Washington is terrified to say it.\u00a0 Why not fight them?\u00a0 Because there are different sects with different agendas and different funding, making them hard to find and kill, and the press would crucify you for trying.<\/p>\n
But we know one of those sects is Wahhabism.\u00a0 Which is funded by Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Which is run by the Royal Family of the House of Saud who the US protects from domestic unrest with US troops even as the Saudis work to get OPEC to undermine American domestic oil production.<\/p>\n
As it sits now, our War on Terror policy is to kill the individual puppets but support the puppet masters even as they attack our economy.\u00a0 That\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n
Forget the terrorists.\u00a0 Let them squat in their mountains and kill each other.\u00a0 Close our border so terrorists can\u2019t come here, then go after the root cause.\u00a0 Go after the money.<\/p>\n
Issue drilling and pumping permits to produce oil on leased federal lands which will flood the world market with American oil and depress Saudi incomes.<\/p>\n
Declare Saudi Arabia to be a financier of terrorism and seize all Saudi money in American banks.<\/p>\n
Pull US troops out of Saudi Arabia to force them to spend their remaining money defending themselves from their own people. If we have any AK\u2019s laying around that we captured in Libya, hand them out to the locals as we\u2019re leaving Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Regime change on the DIY plan.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been fighting a War on Terror since 9-11 by going after street-level terrorists.\u00a0 It\u2019s not working.\u00a0 Try something else.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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