War on terror or on action?

“There's never actually been a war against terrorism. What there has been is a war against targets designated as terrorists by London and Washington. Outside of their calculations are a load of other Islamist groups who they themselves have actually been nurturing and supporting over the years.”

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So says historian and journalist Mark Curtis, speaking in a podcast for Double Down News.

The terrorists we have supported are only freedom fighters in the minds of propagandists and public relations executives hired by the governments to justify their support for terrorists, as bad as the terrorists our governments tell us they are fighting.