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I will hit one of the biggest goals we are faced with. Realizing why they hate us and what we need to do to stop/reverse that.
Pull our forces out of foreign nations. That's how we got in this problem in the first place.
To understand the conflict you need only look back at Arabian history. Their colonial period stole from them their sense of self and culture. When they got their independence through the 50's and 60's they realized what they lost in the period. Afghanistan 1 wasn't bad to them because we were only funding their fighters. But when we did Gulf War 1 it was OUR fighters, not Arabs. It SHOULD have been Arabs. Many Islamic leaders were trying to convince SA and other US friendly governments to not let us fight that fight and leave it up to regional forces. Nothing would have been wrong to them with us funding a coalition to beat back Saddam. It was our presence there and establishment of bases that pissed off people like Osama. Osama, by the way was a Hero from Afghanistan until Gulf War 1. Our presence in the region brought back old memories of the colonial period. It appears to THEM that we were creating an empire.
So, we need to pull out our troops and use diplomace and Arabian coalitions to keep the peace in the region. We must never attempt to assert authority over any soverign nation. Leave that job to the regions people to do.
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