John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NICK TURSE IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Africa Violence Has Spiked Since AFRICOM Founding, Pentagon Study Finds
“The US military's make-work program in Africa is a stellar success, will be providing jobs for years to come”
“If anything, attempting to eradicate terrorism by force may be exacerbating the problem, provoking a terrorist backlash and serving as a recruiting tool for extremist groups.”
I regard that as a solid truth.
It’s part of why the entire "War on Terror," as it was termed some years ago, was a bad joke.
Apart, that is, from the fact that you cannot conduct war against a method or belief.
And that the difference between many "everyday human atrocities" and “terror” is as indistinguishable and meaningless as the distinction between "murder" and"hate-crime murder."
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https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/john-chuckman-comment-here-is-what-you-need-to-know-to-find-your-way-through-a-deliberately-constructed-maze-of-confusion-about-modern-terror/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/john-chuckman-comment-putting-the-threat-of-terror-into-proper-perspective-with-the-day-in-and-day-out-realities-of-americas-own-brutal-violence-government-exploits-fear-to-suppress-freedom/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/john-chuckman-comment-further-thoughts-on-what-terror-is-the-distinction-between-ordinary-killing-and-terror-killing-using-terror-as-a-label-like-witch-nations-use-the-word-terro/
