Posted on 06/17/2014 11:03:50 AM PDT by Randall_S
When Americans think of the Middle East, they usually think Israel, Palestine, religious wars, terrorism, etc. But few appreciate how permeated the Middle East is with drugs, and how these drugs are related to terrorism and politics in the region. Indeed, in March 2012, the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence published a special issue dedicated to the relationship between organized crime and terrorism. A series of essays details the overlapping interests of drug cartels and political terrorists. For the quickest explanation what brings these types together, one needs only to identify the common trait between a good terrorist, and a good cartel leader: the ability to murder, whenever, wherever, without hesitation or regret.
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The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,
Why would anybody waste their money paying somebody to do what they will gladly do for free?
We have it coming, doncha know.
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