Re:Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
by wildmusings on Saturday January 16, 2016 @08:32PM
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This is absolutely false. The US has never supported Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and especially not the insurgency that was attacking us in Iraq. Yes, the US helped the Mujahideen fight off a Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, and unfortunately some of them went on to be part of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. That's not at all comparable.
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Re:Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
by tptacek on Saturday January 16, 2016 @08:42PM
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The Taliban was formed because the "mujahideen" we funded to bleed the Soviets replaced Soviet-sponsored dictatorships with an almost lawless feudalism controlled by brutal warlords who we did, indeed, fund. The Taliban was an order-restoring reaction to an untenable situation we helped create.
The US didn't "fund" the Taliban, but we have more than a little bit of culpability for it, as do several other countries.
Unfortunately for the implicit message board psyche, there are no simple good-guy bad-guy narratives in the Middle East/West Asia. "It's all just a bunch of guys."
Re:Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
by meric on Saturday January 16, 2016 @08:56PM
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I'd say it's all a bunch of bad guys, down to everyone who has any sort of political power. The further the guy try to interfere in matters away from their home, the badder the guy. That would make the US officials involved in training terrorists in Syria and invading Iraq just about the worse, and the village farmers in India who interferes with nothing except his plot, not even his family, the least bad.
