Given Orlando, Has The U.S. Government Been Adequately Protecting The Public?
06/13/2016 |
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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub, by a man
pledging a seemingly last-minute allegiance to the ISIS terror group,
leads to questions about whether the U.S. government has been adequately
protecting its citizens.
Going back in time, the U.S. government inadvertently created al
Qaeda by encouraging, funding, and arming radical Islamist fighters
against the Soviet Union in faraway Afghanistan during the 1980s. After
the 9/11 attacks by that group, the U.S. government, by conducting an
unrelated invasion of Iraq, then unintentionally created an even more
brutal group called al Qaeda in Iraq, which pledged allegiance to the
main al Qaeda group in Pakistan, and eventually morphed into the even
more vicious ISIS. ISIS then took over large parts of Iraq and Syria,
but began to attack Western targets only after a U.S.-led coalition
began bombing the group in those countries. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/given-orlando-has-the-us_b_10437918.html
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