Let's Get Everybody's Troops Out of Everywhere
"Who wants to be occupied? Nobody wants to be occupied."
-- President Bush, May 7, 2004
"I've always felt that foreign troops are an anomaly in a country, that eventually they're unnatural and not welcomed really. There's also the concept of declining consent."
-- then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, summer of 2006
Nothing unites and expands the international jihadist movement more than the prospect of opposing a perceived foreign occupation of Islamic lands; the presence of foreign troops of India in Kashmir, Morocco in Western Sahara, Turkey in Northern Cyprus, and Israel in Palestine incites armed resistance.
To read the full article in the Boston Globe, click on:
Boston Globe
-- President Bush, May 7, 2004
"I've always felt that foreign troops are an anomaly in a country, that eventually they're unnatural and not welcomed really. There's also the concept of declining consent."
-- then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, summer of 2006
Nothing unites and expands the international jihadist movement more than the prospect of opposing a perceived foreign occupation of Islamic lands; the presence of foreign troops of India in Kashmir, Morocco in Western Sahara, Turkey in Northern Cyprus, and Israel in Palestine incites armed resistance.
To read the full article in the Boston Globe, click on:
Boston Globe
posted by Pax Christi @ Monday, December 25, 2006
<< Home