Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Before 9/11, the Bush administration was warned about Al Qaeda, but they dismissed it. 9/11 could have been prevented if defense against terrorism was more of a focus. The previous administration was relatively more focused on it and did stop an attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yri55EVEmFc
Normally, if a group was taking territory to help them limit traffic in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait while also successfully striking an important Saudi pipeline, the US would intervene militarily to keep the oil flowing. That the US so far has chosen not to directly intervene, shows what hectic times we are in with the, so far, failed war in Iran.
Trump is hoping that an agreement with the Houthis where only Saudi tankers are affected will hold.
Saudi Arabia is under attack, where are its treaty allies Turkey and Pakistan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38CU95Pnfbk
The major social media platforms have terrorist algorithms. Type in the right thing, like or comment on the right person, group, or statement, and the algorithm will feed you terrorist propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrXXtif2t4
Bush administration officials had the intelligence that Saddam was not linked to 9/11, but some of the high level officials refused to believe it. Within 24 hours, some of these had decided they needed to get Saddam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5M2kkrXNw
Western countries like France were not doing a great job helping African Sahel countries, but after those countries switched to Russia, things got much worse. Uprisings, insurgents, and terrorists including Al Qaeda and ISIS are causing a lot of trouble for these regimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWiMs0KeF7k
Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huk5XUm2p34
Israeli settlers in the West Bank have been stealing people’s homes and harassing those who try to stay. The IDF tends to protect settlers and not sufficiently punish settler crime against Palestinians. Leaders will condemn settler violence, but not actually enforce the law against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYcetG52YCo
Palestinians have agency and many of them have used it to commit themselves to terrorist tactics in order to target civilians and destroy Israel and then hide amongst their own population so that if Israel wants to aggressively defend themselves, they have to kill many many civilians. The mass death in Gaza is primarily the fault of Gazan terrorists who chose to prove their commitment to the destruction of Israel on October 7th.
Israel is a bad actor and its founding was unjust. But, it’s a country now that has existed and developed for multiple generations. I understand why Palestinians would refuse to accept Israel and commit themselves to its destruction, but, if they are going to do that, then they are choosing to get their own people slaughtered when they use them as human shields.
There will be no peace in Palestine if the Palestinians don’t give up on terror and give up on ending Israel. It’s hard to seriously push Israel to stop its own bad actions when they are honestly in an endless struggle with terrorists determined to slaughter Israelis and end their country.
https://www.econtalk.org/hamas-and-the-future-of-gaza-with-ahmed-fouad-alkhatib/
Lebanon was a nice place until Palestinian refugees started using it as a base of terrorism against Israel and Israel responded by invading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0TAzKA4UEw
When it comes to all things politics and religious, but especially Israel-Palestine…people are prone to black and white thinking, as well as horrible evidence cherry picking, as well as blowing up evidence to be bigger than it is, and even citing evidence