Don’t tell Tom Cotton
by digby
In 2004, Donald Rumsfeld directed a Task Force to determine the causes of radicalism & terrorism. Its conclusions: pic.twitter.com/4eRmvXtI01
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 16, 2015
I think this is so interesting. Bush and company were intent upon deposing Saddam as we know. And 9/11 woke them up to threat of al Qaida. But they were pretty careful about not demonizing Islam and worked to keep the xenophobic and racist impulse from hurtling out of control.
But it’s going out of control now. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that the only people who could keep it even slightly reined in would Republican leaders. It’s (mostly) their followers who are likely to go there.