Who let this happen?
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Re: Who let this happen?
by John Galt » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:44 am
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Who let this happen?
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:02 pm
iraq was not devoid of extremism. i went over this a few weeks ago with dharma. there were terror groups operating in iraq.
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Re: Who let this happen?
by Libertarian602 » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:52 pm
Personally, I don't think Saddam and his sons would have weathered the Arab spring, if they weren't removed from power by the US.Too bad Bush and co was so short sighted, and incompetent .
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Re: Who let this happen?
by John Galt » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:14 pm
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Re: Who let this happen?
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:21 pm
what? the arab spring started because a fruit vendor in tunisia killed himself over police corruption.
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Re: Who let this happen?
by John Galt » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:35 pm
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Re: Who let this happen?
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:41 pm
in two cases worse than tianamen square happened, libya and syria. we've let the egyptian military government carry out KGB levels of disappearing and i don't think tunisia was ever worried about US intervention.
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