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Lobster Issue

[…] on Terrorism. The problem with the concept is that it offers too ready a way to avoid uncomfortable information. If the idea that Hamas are willing to kill Israeli civilians is discomfiting, the false flag notion can save you having to deal with the complexity of Islamists and the Middle East. *new* The new […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Iran notes that ‘those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to kill us’; but then he goes on to acknowledge ‘….that Tehran’s motivation to acquire nuclear weapons, sponsor terrorists, launch covert operations and expand its influence across the […]

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