They started winning the day after Sept 11th, when we responded to their terror exactly as they hoped we would.
By removing fundamental civil rights at home (they hated our freedom right? They succeeded in taking most of it away from us 7 years ago), and aggressively invading a Muslim country that had nothing to do with it. We couldn't have given that asshole bin laden more help in his wildest dreams.
We turned the problem from a few thousand maniacs in caves with maybe a couple dozen income streams, into a never ending stream of new recruits and finance. At this point I believe attacks will only escalate and get increasingly more vicious until we wise up and start fighting terrorism, not populations.
Jan 20th can't come soon enough. Hopefully the new guy, what's his name (haha), has what it takes to do this right.
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