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Friday, January 16, 2015

Paris is a warning: there is no insulation from our wars

THE GUARDIAN
Paris is a warning: there is no insulation from our wars
The attacks in France are a blowback from intervention in the Arab and Muslim world. What happens there happens here too

The official response to every jihadist-inspired terrorist attack in the west since 2001 has been to pour petrol on the flames. That was true after 9/11 when George Bush launched his war on terror, laying waste to countries and spreading terror on a global scale. It was true in Britain after the 2005 London bombings, when Tony Blair ripped up civil liberties and sent thousands of British troops on a disastrous mission to Afghanistan. And it’s been true in the aftermath of last week’s horrific killings at Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

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