America needs to remember what the country went through during the Cold War witch-hunts of McCarthyism and the "Red Scare" about communists. People were ostracized, blackballed from their profession, imprisoned and even executed, just on a rumor that they were a communist. Anyone who ever belonged to the communist party, and many did especially during the Great Depression, were denied their constitutional rights for the rest of their life.
The communists that people thought were under every bed were not there, and neither are the Islamic terrorists today. A person has a higher chance of being struck by lightning or drowning in their bathtub than being killed by a terrorist. The US government and the mainstream media have become fear mongers. They have turned America into a nation of scaredy-cats, willing to give up their freedom for the illusion of safety.
Many of our wounds and scars from the Global War on Terror have been self-inflicted, as I have tried to show with this short review of the Afghanistan War. The US has often been the perpetrator instead of a victim of terrorism.
Droning wedding parties and funerals is terrorism. Night raids are terrorism. Torture is terrorism. The War on Terror is terrorism. America and its allies do not have clean hands when condemning Muslims, Islam and Arabs as backward, barbaric, disrespectful of human rights and prone to violence.
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