No doubt that is how the Jihadists understand the U.S. mission. Indeed, the United States’ conduct in both Iraq and Afghanistan—the evangelizing soldiers, the humiliation of Muslim prisoners forced under torture to eat pork and curse Muhammad, the Crusader rhetoric of the military officers and political leaders—has not only validated the Jihadist argument that these wars are “a new Crusader campaign for the Islamic world” conducted by “the Devil’s army,” it has provided Jihadists with the opportunity to successfully present themselves as the last line of defense against the forces that seek to
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