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8. Kinda like the War on Drugs. Both "wars" require an endless supply of $$$.

Sun Dec 20, 2015, 07:45 PM

Dec 2015

They're voracious. Of course, that means more drugs and terror needs to be harvested if the "wars" want to keep on eating $$$.

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War On Terror Has Created More Terrorism [View all] JEB Dec 2015 OP

It's called "the self-licking ice cream cone" in some circles Proserpina Dec 2015 #1

+1! 2naSalit Dec 2015 #5

A pretext for US militarism, plain and simple. n/t ronnie624 Dec 2015 #9

Some powerful interests are certainly JEB Dec 2015 #10

Just like the War on Drugs and the War on Guns. krispos42 Dec 2015 #3

That's exactly what I came here to post madville Dec 2015 #7

Yep. treestar Dec 2015 #4

We never talk about the source of "extremism." DirkGently Dec 2015 #6

ab-so-fucking-lutely. nt JEB Dec 2015 #11