Angela
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Same as USA that armed ISIS,
Same as Russia who took advantage in East med bases,
Same as Turkey who armed and supply Al Nusra
Same as EVERYONE.
Kantafi,
Sadam
bin Laden
the Father Assant
Al Qaida
etc
are not just one day project.
they do not wake up one morning, being life time presidents.
REMEMBER THE STORY OF AFGANISTAN
DECADES AFTER AND IS NOT OVER.
Why do Europeans have such a skewed view of history? Is it just prejudice and jealousy that prevents them from keeping the facts straight?
Afghanistan was armed primarily because of one U.S. legislator, Charlie Wilson, who thought they were noble peasants or tribesmen or whatever resisting the brutality of the Russian occupation.
He didn't know they had the culture and values of Bronze Age barbarians, and attitudes toward women and sexuaility (i.e. using young boys as sexual substitutes) which, had he known, would no doubt have appalled him.
As for ISIS, and Iraq, the problem has always been that Americans always assumed that people in far off places would become good citizens of a democracy if they were just given the choice. They've always been wrong. That lesson may only now be sinking in, and with it, growing isolationism. George Washington said that no good would come of foreign entanglements, and he was right. Some peoples are just not ready for it.
Dangerously naive, ok, but not evil. There is a tremendous difference between the Russians and the Americans. The Russians are providing aid and covering up WRONGDOING. They are doing it AFTER knowing that Assad will and has and is using chemical weapons against his people. How can you possibly compare that to Afghanistan or Iraq? It's absurd, so absurd that I will not bother to respond.