How the West Was Lost, Or: Destroying Our Values in Order to Defend Them Iain Macwhirter On the Phoney War On Terror and Its Agents Provocateurs in Washington and London Powerplay
Sunday Herald › August 14, 2006
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IF we are indeed "at war with Islamic fascists", as George W Bush claimed last week, then it's not going too well right now.
The mighty Israeli army has been halted in the Lebanon by a handful of Shia militia. America has effectively lost the war in Iraq, sacrificing as many servicemen's lives as civilians who died in 9/11 to create a dysfunctional state heavily influenced by Shia Iran. The same Iran has defied America by continuing to declare its intention to build nuclear weapons.See the full content of this document
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How the West Was Lost, Or: Destroying Our Values in Order to Defend Them Iain Macwhirter On the Phoney War On Terror and Its Agents Provocateurs in Washington and London Powerplay
Meanwhile, the British in Afghanistan have been stunned by the fighting capacity of Islamic militants who were supposed to have been defeated four years ago. In Helmand, we are told, British soldiers have been involved in their most sustained military engagement since the Korean war half a century ago. And now, of course, the civil air services of the West are paralysed after the bottle bomb plot.
The shadow of al-Qaeda is again darkening the skies, almost five years after Bush promised to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive".People often wonder why Islamic extremist...See the full content of this document
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