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Related: About this forumAssad did not create ISIS. We did when we left political vacuums all over the ME
after taking out various leaders.
Leading does not include destroying leaders we don't like.
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Assad did not create ISIS. We did when we left political vacuums all over the ME (Original Post)
magical thyme
Dec 2015
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Economic vacuums as well.
All that "reconstruction" done with imported labor and materials, and sending an entire army home with no job, but let them keep their weapons.
What could go wrong?
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Bernie Sanders predicted that invading Iraq would de-stablize the entire Middle East. He was correct
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)3. Not only that, we poured a shit-ton of weapons
and cash into "opposition" forces in Syria, many of whom were quite simply fronts for ISIS.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)4. 2 trillion - 4 trillion - 6 trillion I do not know how much money
I do know it would have been better spent here
Nyan
(1,192 posts)5. Yeah Assad's Syrian Arab Army is
Fighting ISIS on the ground at the moment.