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Monday, June 13, 2016

Given Orlando, Has The U.S. Government Been Adequately Protecting The Public?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/given-orlando-has-the-us_b_10437918.html

Given Orlando, Has The U.S. Government Been Adequately Protecting The Public?

06/13/2016
  • 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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