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When To Give Terrorists What They Want And When Not To

Terrorism abby4ever - December 29, 2009 160

Most, if not all, of us here are familiar with the argument some terrorists give in defence of their attacks upon the West. It's our foreign policy. And you can't deny that our foreign policy, especially of the last...

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