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https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-americas-afghan-crusade-came-home-to-orlando-b1b9aba680ad#.kpquhkzh6A well researched piece by Nafeez Ahmed delving into the complex influences in the Orlando tragedy.
The US-Afghan military industrial complex surrounding Orlando terrorist Omar Mateens father stretches from Blackwater to Donald Trump.
There are many threads to this tragic, horrifying story of a gay American son of an Afghan mujahid.
Theres the question of blowback: the deep politics of short-sighted military interventions and the self-defeating profiteering of the military industrial complex. Theres the escalating clash of cultures and the crisis of multiple identities that is becoming evermore fractious as Western wars have brought unresolved chaos to foreign shores, and invited foreign refugees from theatres of war to the homeland. And ultimately, theres the destructive force of repressed sexuality.
There is no way he was homosexual, he was not brought up that way. I will not have it. He was not gay. - Mateen's father
applegrove
(118,456 posts)from the war in afghanistan against communism.
pauldp
(1,890 posts)of who the father was and the ideological and sociological
forces influencing the family. i think this story is very complex and nuanced
and many are trying to over simplify it.
Iggo
(47,534 posts)Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)The Pulse massacre can be seen as blow-back from the CIA support for the mujahideen (later the Taliban) fundamentalist Muslims in their fight against the USSR in the late 70s-early 80s.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7916294
Thanks for the link
malaise
(268,636 posts)if he backed the other side.
The entire cocaine cartel from Jamaica were welcomed with open arms - kind of their version of the Iran-Contras criminality. Then when they start committing serious crimes in the US all hell breaks lose.
These right wing goons and their gangs were welcomed as allies during the 'cold war'.
JI7
(89,237 posts)They didn't end up killing a bunch of innocent people.
JI7
(89,237 posts)people who grow up in the US with immigrant parents whose views can conflict with the culture in the US .
you deal with it and in the US unlike many other parts of the world you have more freedom to live as you want .