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It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.

“at war for 1000′s of years”

you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east

here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s

if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s

It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.

The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.

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its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.

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the CIA took out the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1970s over oil and that set off an entire chain of events leading to ISIS, here’s more about multiple other countries we’ve fucked over 

The United States: Fucking monsters.

America, 1953: The Iranian government is terrible, we should steal their oil liberate them.

America, 2019: The Iranian government is terrible, we should steal their oil liberate them.

America and its running dogs like Britain aren’t just indirectly responsible for Isis, they’re directly responsible for Isis:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq

On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting.

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That didn’t only include the “non-lethal assistance” boasted of by the government (including body armour and military vehicles), but training, logistical support and the secret supply of “arms on a massive scale”. Reports were cited that MI6 had cooperated with the CIA on a “rat line” of arms transfers from Libyan stockpiles to the Syrian rebels in 2012 after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.

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A revealing light on how we got here has now been shone by a recently declassified secret US intelligence report, written in August 2012, which uncannily predicts – and effectively welcomes – the prospect of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria and an al-Qaida-controlled Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. In stark contrast to western claims at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency document identifies al-Qaida in Iraq (which became Isis) and fellow Salafists as the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria” – and states that “western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey” were supporting the opposition’s efforts to take control of eastern Syria.

That’s not the only story worth reading about how America and its allies terrorized Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.:

U.S. ARMY LOST TRACK OF $1 BILLION WORTH OF WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT: REPORT

Listen, the United States doesn’t “lose” a billion dollars worth of anything.

I made 4,000 last year and the animals are after me for $255 (now just 105 thanks to y’all donating). You’d have to be politically illiterate or some kind of naive to think that penny-pinching misers as greedy and unscrupulous as the Americans are going to “lose” a billion dollars worth of weapons. They were arming Isis and needed to portray themselves as stupid as part of their stratagem.

Some more on the story:

ISIS claims to seize weapons cache in Iraq

Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too

Again: you don’t just “pick up” a cache of advanced weaponry like artillery robots and tanks. This isn’t a video game where there was just a shiny spinning toolbox floating in mid-air in the desert that someone walked through to put a billion dollars worth of weapons in their inventory.

It takes operational and logistical sophistication to handle materiel like this. You have to know how to drive American tanks, you have to know how to transport, maintain, and operate machine guns and robots, and you have to know where they were “left behind”.

Moreover,  America must be Dresden’d.