{"id":39501,"date":"2019-10-27T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39501"},"modified":"2019-10-27T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:20:16","slug":"war-on-terror-a-conflict-with-no-end-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39501","title":{"rendered":"War on terror: a conflict with no end in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While the world digests the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the hands of U.S. Delta Force and CIA commandos, it is grappling with what the Islamic State leader’s death means in the war against international terrorism.<\/p>\n

I want to offer this perspective, which is that al-Baghdadi’s death won’t signal the end to the war against terrorists, let alone against the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

It is my view at least that 9\/11 signaled a new era in U.S. geopolitical activity that doesn’t appear to have an end anywhere in sight.<\/p>\n

We’ve known for many decades that terrorists were out to “get” us. The 9\/11 attack 18 years ago simply burst that awareness to the front of our minds. Al-Qaeda’s daring attack signaled to us all that we were perhaps more vulnerable than we ever thought.<\/p>\n

So the war has commenced. I share the critics’ view that the war on terror has taken a bizarre turn at times, particularly with our invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the misery that the Iraq War brought, given that Iraq had no connection with al-Qaeda, nor did it possess weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

However, the war on terror is likely to continue until the world no longer contains terrorists willing to die for the perverted cause to which they adhere.<\/p>\n

In other words, we’ll be fighting this war forever.<\/p>\n

Whether we fight at the level we have been fighting remains to be seen over the span of time. If 9\/11 taught us anything it should have taught us that we cannot let our guard down for a single moment.<\/p>\n

Not ever.<\/p>\n\n

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While the world digests the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the hands of U.S. Delta Force and CIA commandos, it is grappling with what the Islamic State leader’s death means in the war against international terrorism. I want to offer this perspective, which is that al-Baghdadi’s death won’t signal the end to the war … Continue reading War on terror: a conflict with no end in sight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,5710,989,1326,2334,2348,2362,5177],"class_list":["post-39501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-al-baghdadi","tag-cia","tag-delta-force","tag-iraq-war","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39503,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501\/revisions\/39503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}