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how can we say they are defending our freedoms when they are serving in the Middle East? They aren't defending our soil as much as being utalized by our government for power

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Hear ye, Hippie- The world waxes and wanes. Nothing ever stays the same. Having the most mobile Military is what makes our country the strongest. You can't just hole up and hope others don't try to frick you, because that's all EVERYONE wants to do.

Think of the war on radical Islam as the outside fence.

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Posted by BlackPawnMartyr

Houston, TX

Member since Dec 2010

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Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:33 pm to Hardy_Har

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The world waxes and wanes.

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Think of the war on radical Islam as the outside fence.

Wahhabism

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It has been variously described as "ultraconservative",[7] "austere",[3] "fundamentalist",[8] or "puritan(ical)"[9][10] and as an Islamic "reform movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship"

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The alliance between followers of ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad bin Saud's successors (the House of Saud) proved to be a durable one. The House of Saud continued to maintain its politico-religious alliance with the Wahhabi sect through the waxing and waning of its own political fortunes over the next 150 years, through to its eventual proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, and then afterwards, on into modern times. Today Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab's teachings are the official, state-sponsored form of Sunni Islam[3][32] in Saudi Arabia.[33] With the help of funding from Saudi petroleum exports[34] (and other factors[35]), the movement underwent "explosive growth" beginning in the 1970s and now has worldwide influence.[3]

This is our ally in the region. The most extreme version of islam.