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originally posted by: Justso
a reply to: LABTECH767
Thanks for that recitation of how we got here.
Hard to remember the 90s. It was all Hoo Ra and yeah We are Americans. We didn't see the faces. We didn't know the truth. We didn't see the big picture. And now we know-or some of us know.
It is good to try to remember. Remember that here, now, we sit and we think we know but we don't. The game is being played out and we can't see all the pieces and the faces. This immigration issue is so much larger than it appears. It's bigger than the politicians and the cable newspeople.
If we could only see all the players and the motives and the faces we might not be quite such a divided nation.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: LABTECH767
this is a coincidence
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: howtonhawky
Excellent. I needed a new place to add to my rotation
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Prior to the arrival of the Arab Spring, Syria was a very modern, tolerant, and Western-friendly nation, relatively secular and non-fundamentalist.
And of course Western leaders couldn't have any of that...
Same thing with Libya, really. Ghadaffi hadn't bothered anybody in 20 or 30 years.
originally posted by: olaru12
We need to remember that War is a product, to be staffed, manufactured, and exported.
As with everything...."follow the money"
3) During the Iraq war, Saddam fired scud rockets at Israel. Israel had it's iron dome as well as US patriot missiles shoot down all the scuds. The US wants to war with Iran but Iran is allied with Syria which is close enough that it could fire artillery into Israel rather than missiles. Which means any attack on Iran must be precipitated by knocking out its ally Syria first.
6. The people fighting the war against the Syrian government are not Syrian.
7. ISIS came out of nowhere and began attacking their communities and killing people.
However Assad fired first