Yasch22 wrote: Right, Trump "made a deal" with the Taliban. Two days ago the Taliban let all the Al Qaeda and Isis prisoners out of jail. The thing is, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Isis, and the Wahhabi Sunni militants of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan. Making a deal with any group from that list to control terrorists is like getting a promise from Donald Trump to stop being Donald Trump.
In the meantime, Trump made great friends with the Saudi Arabian government, just as Bush had done before him, as well as Obama. So here's the kicker: "The
hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with the militant Islamist group
al-Qaeda. They hailed from four countries; fifteen of them were citizens of
Saudi Arabia, two were from the
United Arab Emirates, one was from
Lebanon, and one from
Egypt."
Osama Bin Laden was living in the mountains between Pakistan & Afghanistan in 2001. But the Al Qaeda militants who did his bidding were concentrated in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East. The most serious attacks on American military personnel and civilians have come from Sunni extremists, but these folks are also blood-relations with those who control the world's oil distribution, so predictably we figure out ways to stay friendly with them and choose instead to rattle our sabers at countries like Iran (Shia Islam) and Afghanistan (no resources).