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originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: SecretKnowledge
If only America kept its nose out of Iraq the world would be a much better place
Seconded for emphasis.
I think one of the prime reasons is the west meddling in affairs and cultures we don't understand.
The United States does not act alone! Our government has the same support and go ahead from the Globalists as does yours who supports the same actions!
Grant you it is easy to blame the United States for everything, but perhaps you should direct your anger at your government who is our ally in all of this?
Many of us are trying, but our voices are buried in the sea of madness of those who worship their politicians as many worship Gods.
If you had READ my comment I did not solely blame the USA. I Said WEST that includes USA/UK et al.
Your edit was quick! Man up and admit it!
Frankly, its an appalling mess, which is only becoming MORE appalling as time wears on, if only for the idiocy of the policies which fuel the situation!
Thank you for proving my point of the "damn if you do/don't" dilemma the U.S. is in.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: ScientificRailgun
But on the other hand, if the U.S. acts, the world sees it as "Oh look the World Police are bullying a region again".
Big difference between "bullying" and waging aggressive war.
Rome had and probably still has their Jesuit order that played the part in the past .vaticanassassins.org... Also another arm of Rome would be the (city) in London where the economic hit men are sent out to sell their USD world currency . That may have been the problem with Iraq , Libya ,Syria or anyone else looking to get away from the US/dollar . It is quite the system they have there .
A small force of assassins could errode, slowly and inexorably, the command chain further, by detonating their skulls at a thousand yards with powerful rifles, or dismembering a high ranking commander a week in the dead of night, and nail gunning the bastard to a street sign in pieces, to be discovered in the morning. Crucially, these forces should be deniable, small enough to go undetected, be trained to strike from deepest darkness and without warning, be trained in how to go completely to ground, stalk the target, and hit them again and again, without capture, without being located, and to strike not just with extreme, but TOTAL precision and prejudice.
I think the U.S. (And the West in general) unintentionally created and/or fomented ISIS by supplying munitions to the FSA. I'd wager that the true moderates in the FSA were either bullied into giving their arms to the more radical movement, or outright gunned down for it. I believe then intention of the supplies were noble at heart (at least according to FSA, which only wanted to stop Assad from slaughtering it's citizens), but that kindness was corrupted and they unknowingly birthed a major new enemy in radical islam.
originally posted by: Willtell
Two points here:
1) This video needs to be analyzed closely
Everybody can accept that the stupid war of Bush in 2003 is the original sin here.
No problem.
But Mr. Swann goes into detail of the time when some FSA general threatened that the war in Syria will be lost in a month if support didn’t come fast from outside.
Lo and behold equipment started coming and then not long after came ISIS and their march through the ME.
Questions
Did the US know that this equipment was going to ISIS?
Is or was the FSA a front for ISIS and the Nusra front?
2) There needs to be a congressional investigation (highly unlikely) to find out whether the US government (the CIA of course) deliberately supported ISIS to overthrow Assad and this op ran amuck or it didn’t run amuck it was by design.
This all may just turn out to be another conspiracy theory like 911 if it doesn’t get investigated by official authorities
As long as parties and candidates are selected and elected, based not on the fact that their policies and thinking are in line with reason and logic, but because they had more money behind them, then I see no change ever coming to the policies themselves, or the systems which uphold them.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Snarl
Really? Russian propaganda? You really think SO, who hates RT, would allow this? You don't know who Ben Swann is? Many of us have been following his work since his days at a local Fox News affiliate. Swann is a homegrown American patriot and not sponsored by Putin.