“Instead of over-the-top responses by weak leaders, such as George W. Bush or Francois Hollande, we need strong and effective leaders to withstand the pressure for excessive and thus counterproductive responses—exactly what the terrorists want. After 9/11, the United States has needlessly attacked or invaded at least seven Muslim countries and only made the terrorism problem worse. Presidents Bush and Obama have told the world that these military actions are not a ‘war on Islam’; unfortunately, to those at the other end of the gun barrel, it doesn’t look that way.”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8587
Related posts:
Who Was the Richest Person Ever?
What If the U.S. Didn’t Have a Military Establishment?
Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
Charles A. Burris: War Crimes, the Holocaust, and Today’s National Security State
How Rigid Alliances Have Locked Us Into Unwanted Conflicts
The IMF, the SDR, and the Dollar: One Big Happy
Why I Bought One Bitcoin
“The Government is US?” Not Unless We’re Citigroup
Lawrence Reed of FEE on the Expansion of Free-Market Thinking
What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America's Police State
How Congress Puts Itself Above the Law
Jim Bovard: The Sordid History of IRS Political Abuse
All Eyes on Europe This Summer
Dr. Grinspoon's Kind War: Interview With a Renegade Marijuana Proponent
Euro Pacific Capital Global Investor Newsletter: October 2012
