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Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff
Wow!
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yep, wow.
who'd have thought we'd come to such a pretty pass...but it's time to own what we've contributed, and then figure out what to do about it.
now, I'm sure you didn't mean wow as in you agree, or that it just hit you...I know you mean this as 'how dare I?'. but yes, I dare, because it's true.
who is isis? who constititutes their leadership? why is Syria in upheaval, or Iraq? who created the chaos over there in the years since we went over there to remove saddam, while ignoring why we didn't remove him in gulf 91, because we knew them that it would cause just what the hell we have now.
you go back and look over the history of ww1, the fall of the ottomans, the allies in the middle east and how they got treated after by euros, ww2, borders drawn by people from Europe, Russia vs afganistan and what did (Osama bin laden said we'll let the u.s. help us get rid of the soviets, and then we'll get rid of the us), we supported Iraq vs iran, because whoever the soviets were against, we would support...while ignoring just who it was we supported!
so, you go study all that, and then you come back and tell me how I'm wrong in placing blame where it belongs.
did we actually arm the terrorists and get them to attack? no. but we sure all hell have contributed substantially to all that is going on over there, and all the consequences that come from our crap foreign policy decisions over the decades.