Student vet with PTSD suspended, labeled '‘threat' to peers after requesting to meet with non-Muslim counselor

Hindsight is 20/20. If you weren't alive during the cold war, you're going to have no idea how terrifying it was. I was born just after it ended, but my parents grew up in the tick of it, and their fears and strange ticks they developed in the days of "Duck and Cover" under your desk where prevalent in how they raised my siblings and I.

When it came down to it, the USA and the USSR were pretty equa in their spheres of influence, with only one major battleground that could go either way: the middle east. And in the most important country in the region, Afghanistan, the USSR was winning.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and, thus, Operation Cyclone came into being.

At the end of the day it worked, and the USSR left Afghanistan. You can blame the USA all you want, but there are some important things to keep in mind:

1.Looking back on it now, we can criticize the program and rip it to shreds. But it was necessary, and it was the best way to prevent the USSR from taking Afghanistan, and most likely the rest of the Middle East. If the USSR had gotten control, the war would ave had a much greater chance of ending differently. (Note, I'm not saying it would have, but with more spheres of influence, the Soviet machine would definitely have been strengthened.)

  1. We can play the blame game all day: had the USSR never invaded Russia and the US not had to look for an alternative to direct conflict, we never would have funded the eventual Taliban.

Now, for your ISIS, um, theory. You know you're wrong right? The US (and the West as a whole) definitely played a part in it, but Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia all had a part to play.

Oh, and, life pro-tip: don't ask for facts in a rebuttal if you don't use any in your opening.

Anyway the ISIS issue is still new, so it's hard to pin down anything. Here's some suggested reading:

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And the most interesting.

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