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originally posted by: ausername
a reply to: GargIndia
The house of Saud, and elite Saudis only ideology is wealth and power, and retaining and growing both. Their domestic agendas are designed to pacify, and control their domestic, predominantly Muslim population.
Truth is, the Saudi royalty, elite and leadership are more afraid of ISIS than other countries in the region, or the west...
imo
originally posted by: MrSpad
Well these guys are fighting ISIS, Assad, the Kurds/FSA and some other radical groups of whom are all also fighting each other. So it could have been anyone, alhough for the moment ISIS seems to be everyones short term focus. Long term once ISIS is done with the FSA/Kurds, Assad and the other radical groups will all go back to fighting each other.
originally posted by: AlphaHawk
Some of the replies are so predictable.
Are you all so narrow minded that you automatically assume the US is involved?
You look like mindless sheep when you just blame America for everything, how about opening your minds to other, more likely possibilities?
For example, ISIS alone, without any outside influence, could and would do this.
How about Assad? These guys had united in their fight against him, what better way to disrupt the rebels?
But no, it just has to be the US! Derp!
originally posted by: iamhobo
Maybe they used MK Ultra for something good for a change!
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
Yea, what a coincidence..............
This happens right after 'Russia Warns US Against Strikes on ISIS in Syria'. Now I bet the US gets a welcoming party in Syria.
It's almost as if ISIS does exactly what the US wants...........................
originally posted by: AnteBellum
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
What a coincidence!
Well with them gaining more and more control of Syria it will be easier for the US to invade unobstructed now. Less people the US government has to argue with. . .
originally posted by: AlphaHawk
Are you all so narrow minded that you automatically assume the US is involved?
You look like mindless sheep when you just blame America for everything...
Derp!
The legacy of covert U.S. involvement in the seven successful coups below (not to mention a number of U.S. military interventions against hostile regimes and U.S.-supported insurgencies and failed assassination attempts, including a plan to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar), has made the secret hand of the United States a convenient bogeyman in today's political tensions. Even now, despite waning U.S. influence in Cairo, conspiracy theories suggesting that both the Muslim Brotherhood and the military-backed government are in cahoots with the United States abound in Egypt.
Here's a brief history of the confirmed cases of the CIA's globe-spanning campaign of coups.
Iran, 1953...
Guatemala, 1954...
Congo, 1960...
Dominican Republic, 1961...
South Vietnam, 1963...
Brazil, 1964...
Chile, 1973...
originally posted by: ausername
a reply to: GargIndia
ISIS is a particular kind of Islamic evil, that could consume the population of Saudi Sunni Muslims, a kind of militarized, outside funded independent uprising they are terrified of, for good reason. Isis has already made threats against the kingdom, and even Mecca... They can't control it, and how they approach confronting this threat, even through western proxies, could further turn Saudis against them.
But hey, believe whatever you like.