Much of the violence of America's wars on 'drugs' and 'terror' is outsourced – out of sight to US citizens - but the homegrown forces that drive these conflicts rear up when one examines the fate of El Chapo and al-Shami.
Iraq's homegrown forces are still too badly motivated, too lacking in national as opposed to sectarian spirit, too skimpily trained and too badly equipped to keep the peace on their own.For sure, the surge has had some modest, patchy success.
We must be ever vigilant against the homegrown forces that would turn a nation founded on the universal rights of man into one now intentionally identified with torture, willing to hold people behind bars with no charges filed, willing to justify almost any extreme action on the basis of a highly warped and irrational view of the world".
6 A three-mile-long residential corridor in central Baghdad that was once a shooting gallery for insurgents and was handed over to the Iraqi Army has since seen relative peace, a result, soldiers and residents say, of the community's acceptance of a homegrown security force.
Even if the reform movement retains its majority in the Parliament, it is vital that all the homegrown political forces dedicated to meaningful, long-term reform in Iranian society undergo a substantive soul-searching.
By bringing in mandatory age verification the digital economy bill will force homegrown porn out of business.
Seeing a charismatic, homegrown YouTube star forcing a smile and pretending to fit into a brand-box feels kind of like watching a caged unicorn.
His force is homegrown and home-financed, said the commander, Mohammed Nabi Kako.
A reporter saw Lebanese Sunnis trying to enter Qusayr; scores, possibly hundreds, of fighters from Arab countries were believed to have joined a larger force of homegrown rebels there.
Yemen, whose tribes have for centuries been hostile to outsiders, could prove a deadly quagmire if conventional infantries from elsewhere in the Arab world attempt to wage a ground war against a homegrown, battle-hardened guerrilla force, the Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels.
