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Re:How the Arab World Came Apart by finid on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:26AM (#12268451)
> I am just glad we are finally getting a mainstream press group to admit the Middle East is the fault of European colonialism instead of the last fifteen odd years blaming Bush.

Even with the fault of European colonialism, they were doing just fine until we decided to get rid of Saddam.

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Re:How the Arab World Came Apart by hedonistbot on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:57PM (#12270763)
...and bomb *Libya, and fund opposition "moderate" beheaders in Syria, and supporting the military coup in Egypt, and antagonize Turkey and harbor the alleged mastermind of the coup. I'm sure I'm missing a lot more.
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