The West followed the policy of 'Set a thief to catch a thief'.

Submitted by M.D. (United States), May 25, 2010 at 18:13

Instead what the West got was a proliferation of thugs intent on destroying our way of life. At present the Islamists dominate European Islam...It will not be too far in the future that the same will happen in the Americas too. We've already seen the Islamists' foot soldiers botch up their schemes in the four recent attacks on the US, except for the Fort Hood Islamist who murdered 13 of our recruits and injured 31 of them.

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