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Re:On the Screen, Libyans Learned About Everything but Thems... by rayiner on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:27AM (#45053425)
> didn't have 9/11 in mind regarding this, so I guess we're in agreement ?

9/11 was when the “War on Terror” started.

> This is a specific political ideology that I don't think defines the country.

But it’s not a “specific political ideology.” My friends and I loved “24” in college and most of us had supported Al Gore. “Break the rules to get the bad guys” is just Americanism.

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Re:On the Screen, Libyans Learned About Everything but Thems... by makeitdouble on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:24PM (#45058152)
> War on Terror

This was just slapping a name and an official policy on something that has been going on for way longer. In a way, 9/11 was the point where it could be put as is on the public place and be accepted politically ?

> Break the rules to get the bad guys

I'd offer you "agencies that have their own extra-legal rules and only need some higher up's approval" as a better description.

The CIA doing it's own drug trafficking to balance its sheets would be a real life example of this.

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