Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah. They’re Iraqi cities now occupied and controlled by ISIS. Mosul is Iraq’s second largest city. Tikrit is the home town of Saddam Hussein. Fallujah is the site of enormous death, destruction and suffering from two major American campaigns against Sunni resistance fighters during the early years
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The Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Militarized Foreign Policy
Perhaps the ultimate legacy of the Bush/Cheney regime was the militarization of America’s foreign policy by which the use or threat of military force came to displace diplomacy as the principle instrument of foreign policy. That Canada should succumb to this same contagion is as lamentable as it is inevitable
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