A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.