by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon

SUMMARY

Summary

A decade later, the U.S. and the United Kingdom led an attack on Iraq with a “coalition of the willing”. And now, another decade on, we hear the same language and see the same military movements from the U.S. as it responds to the threat to all of us posed by ISIS.

And what did Al-Qaeda do this week, more than two decades after being at the receiving end of the global war on terror, one of the greatest and most expensive global military adventures of its time?

So as the U.S. and the U.K. were rekindling GWOT in Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS, thus returning to the military tactics of two decades ago that failed to defeat Al-Qaeda-type militancy, Al-Qaeda itself and its many localized copycats, franchises and spinoffs have continued to expand.

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