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"Without the jihadists, the U.S. would have to resort to massive deployment of its own troops to the region -- a mission that the American people will not accept."The international Islamic jihadist network, created nearly four decades ago in Afghanistan by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is unraveling in full view of a planetary audience. Donald Trump thinks it's all his doing -- but he's wrong, of course.
"During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology," Trump tweeted. "Leaders pointed to Qatar — look!"Trump appears to actually believe that the Saudis -- the godfathers, along with U.S., of international jihadism - - have renounced their bankrolling of Islamist holy wars.
"So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off," tweeted Trump. "They said they would take a hard line on funding. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!"

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