Ein Rückblick auf die Kriege in Afghanistan und dem Irak

Motto: Es ist leicht, in Afghanistan einzumarschieren, aber schwer, wieder hinaus zu gelangen.

 (Alexander d. Große - zugeschrieben)

DANIEL P. BOLGER in der New York Times vom 10.11.2014:

"Like a handful of aspirin gobbled by a fevered patient, the surge cooled the symptoms. But the underlying disease didn’t go away. The remnants of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Sunni insurgents we battled for more than eight years simply re-emerged this year as the Islamic State, also known as ISIS."