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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS
US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused Americas key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.
Americas biggest problem in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.
Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria, he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were so determined to take down Assad, that in a sense they started a proxy Sunni-Shia war by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons towards anyone who would fight against Assad.
And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them, said Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria.
http://rt.com/news/192880-biden-isis-us-allies/
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Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS (Original Post)
CJCRANE
Oct 2014
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And the American War Contactors and manufacturers had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Dont call me Shirley
Oct 2014
#1
Nothing he said that isn't true. I'll bet he hates having to listen to lying assclowns
TwilightGardener
Oct 2014
#3
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)1. And the American War Contactors and manufacturers had absolutely nothing to do with it.
I have this bridge to sell ya.....
louis-t
(23,295 posts)2. And baby boosh let al-Quaida into Iraq.
Don't forget that part.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)3. Nothing he said that isn't true. I'll bet he hates having to listen to lying assclowns
like Panetta running around screeching about "if only we gave these losers EVEN MORE ARMS, the world would be marshmallows and ponies right now!!"
eridani
(51,907 posts)4. Loose cannons have this annoying habit of being right. n/t