Saudis wanted Assad gone. Because of
a future natural gas pipeline to Europe via Syria. And because Assad is a Shiite (Alawite to be precise). And the Saudis are Sunnis. Almost all conflicts in the ME can be explained by looking at who is Sunni and who is Shiite. The
Saudis and Quatar were the instigators of all this.
Are you telling me politicians are bought and paid for by oil companies and oil producing allied nations? I'm shocked. I must travel back to 2002 and warn everyone!
But no. Russians say A. So we fucktards need to say "the opposite of A". Brilliant politics from the west.
I remember republicans being against Obama simply because many other people supported Obama, including terrorists (apparently).
Terrorists say: We attack America because America is constantly fucking with us, bombing us, overthrowing governments, assassinating people.
Obama says: Maybe we should try talking to terrorists and figure out why they hate us so much.
Republicans say: Oh my god, Obama actually wants to
fix the terrorism problem! Fuck him!!
Being attacked on 911 not a good reason? Maybe Roosevelt should have sat out WWII after Pearl Harbor.
So you're saying we should have invaded Canada or some other country that
didn't attack us? Please clarify what you mean by this.
Blame our and international intelligence communities for saying Saddam H. had WMD's and was working on a nuke.
But this was never the case. The "intelligence" was gathered by torturing people. It has been known for thousands of years that torture is only useful for extracting
false confessions. While tortured, a prisoner said Iraq was working on nukes. That's the false confession they were looking for, so they stopped torturing the guy. The Soviets were really bad for this kind of thing; they would torture people into confessing then have show trials to justify Stalin's extremely harsh regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials
This is why a lot of people compared Bush to Stalin and Hitler. The "we've always been at war with terror" meme is very 1984-esque. Constant references to "security" and "foreign invaders" were almost exact copies of things Hitler said, and this constant campaign of fear was used to justify the patriot act. Many people called it the "enabling enact" just to further associate it with things Hitler did.
The Middle East is a complex place, and I for one am tired of hearing "it's all Bush's fault"
People say that because it
is Bush's fault. Saddam was an evil dictator, but he kept everything under control. Things like ISIS could not exist because Saddam would simply kill them. Now we're seeing the same thing with Obama/Kerry trying to screw with Assad in Syria. Assad is probably an evil guy, but he keeps things in check. He's fighting
against groups like ISIS, just like Saddam was. Qaddafi was like that too. He was a bad guy, but Libya had a relatively high standard of living when he was in charge. With the dictator removed, countries quick break down into civil wars and extremist groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_vacuum
wiki said:
.... the political condition "when someone has lost control of something and no one has replaced them."[1] The situation can occur when a government has no identifiable central power or authority. The physical analogy suggests that in a power vacuum, other forces will tend to "rush in" to fill the vacuum as soon as it is created, perhaps in the form of an armed militia or insurgents, military coup, warlord or dictator.
Historical examples[edit]
Historic examples include the death of Alexander the Great,
Alexander died over 2000 years ago, so this isn't news to anyone.
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