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The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.

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For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

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To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

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The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

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The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

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Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

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The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

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Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

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Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

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I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1973

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