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dbcurtis
5y ago
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The war on terror was not about containing communism. It could not be labeled and dismissed as “anti-communist hysteria”
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srtjstjsj
5y ago
It was anti-Islamist hysteria. What's the difference?
dbcurtis
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5y ago
The difference is which generation the rhetoric triggers.
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bsanr2
5y ago
It was about extending capitalism (well, democracy morally and structurally enabling capitalistic integration of ME into the global market), and also an extension of Cold War jockeying, which was anti-communist (and arguably hysteria).
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