The Real Roots of Terror

I have been too busy to post in the last few days but I am back. I want to talk about a news article I ran across in TIME magazine about the US government’s involvement with “secret prisons” in Ethiopia. Apparently the US continues to deny any wrongdoing or consequential involvement with the practice of torturing suspected terrorists, even in the face of international evidence to the contrary. This administration continues to flout international and domestic law while hypocritically promoting “democracy” and rule of law in a nation that has proved it doesn’t want it. It’s no wonder we are internationally mistrusted and generally despised. These are the kind of actions and policies that promote a general hatred of this nation by “Islamofacists” (to use a term constantly touted by the White House and political Right) and gives them the propaganda that they use to recruit Jihadists. If it was your son or daughter, father or mother, brother or sister that was kidnapped, beaten and tortured by a foreign government, wouldn’t you be motivated to do what you could to resist this foreign government that is violating your loved ones? Wouldn’t you support someone who was telling you that they could make it stop? I would. One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter. And this is why the “War on Terror” will never be won, unless we stop promoting our own U.S. brand of Terrorism.