Dick Cheney is a discredited hypocrite. He knew in 1991 that it was a mistake to go in and that was the only time he's ever been right about Iraq. Why anybody would listen to Dick Cheney on Iraq is beyond me?
Richard Clarke criticizes Dick Cheney's credibility regarding Iraq policy.
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The people who become terrorists in Europe are not refugees. They're not people who have been born in the Middle East and come here. They are people who are disaffected citizens of their own country, the country of their birth.
If societies can offer people an alternative pathway, employment perhaps, meaningful life, education, a chance to move up, you're not going to see as much of this.
We have to deal not just with police tactics and intelligence tactics, but we have to get at the root causes.
We should have never gone in in the first place. The situation we face now is directly because we went in.
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