‘America falls victim to its own pre-emptive doctrine’

This is apropos two back-to-back letters titled “America falls victim to its own pre-emptive doctrine” to the Editor from this writer carried by the newspaper on Monday and yesterday.

The United States has suffered its own share of domestic consequences. The Boston Marathon bombing, the Orlando nightclub massacre, the San Bernardino attack, and the Fort Hood shooting all emerged from radicalization fueled by wars that inflamed emotions, grievances, and ideological anger across continents.

Western intelligence agencies acknowledged that the Iraq War accelerated global extremism more than any single event since World War II.

This pattern continued recently with the fatal shooting of a US National Guard soldier and the wounding of another by an armed gunman who, according to initial assessments, carried deep personal grievances and emotional wounds closely tied to broader social and psychological turmoil. His act, though individual in execution, reflects a growing trend: internal radicalization born not only from ideology but from a society increasingly shaped by violence abroad and polarization at home.

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