Nobel Peace Prize winner allows troops to behead children
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
What about the early 1980s when the Ayatollah was declaring death to America and funding terrorism?
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
What about the early 1980s when the Ayatollah was declaring death to America and funding terrorism?
Yes, that was the time Reagan was playing off Iraq and Iran.
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Needless to say, we're not talking about one dimensional cartoon characters, but real countries and flesh and blood human beings. Nobody is entirely good or bad, but are a combination of both, depending on degrees.
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No, those things you rattled off are policies of the United States government, not me. As a matter of fact, I do personally want people to be free.
As for removing Assad - no one seems to have had a problem when the US and it's allies had removed homicidal maniacs like Hitler and Mussolini. As I already said, Assad is a dilettante, but a homicidal one just the same. I can't believe the rest of the world would regret his removal.
Bombing them doesn't free them. All the people the US have attacked since 2001 are a million times worse off, and the US don't do it to free people, you really need to understand that, because it's like talking to a brick wall.
Again, the US didn't enter the war to remove fascism. Their first acts were to support Nazis in North Africa and work against the Nazi resistance in Italy. How did 'freeing' Japan go? The US are worse than all their enemies.
Read what I already wrote, the US supports far worse and is far worse with its foreign policy. The were supporting Al Qaeda against Assad.
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The US did do similar alliances with Chile's Augusto Pinochet and other south American dictators like Juan Peron and Alfredo Stroessner purely because they were anti-communist. Back in the day Soviet Russia and Red China were the ISIS of their time. These dictators used the opportunity of these temporary alliances with the US to murder many hundreds of thousands of (often poor) civilians using right wing death squads with implicit approval (and sometimes military support of the US) under the guise of labelling opposition as communists.
There is (therefore) a historic precendent
Communism is just the pretext used. Was Saddam anti Communist? They do it because these proxy leaders destroy their own people and help US corporations.
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Has nothing to do with a "change" in American foriegn policy. How are your buddies in HAMAS going?
Has a lot to do with it, you just wouldn't admit to being wrong. Under Trump, the US stopped funding the organ eating rebels, then bang, Assad wins. How's your buddies in Israel, with their racial colonies in illegally occupied territories? Israel helped Hamas form by trying to destroy the PLO in the 80's.
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
That's disgusting. It was war industry profits.
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
That's disgusting. It was war industry profits.
I never, ever, said that was the right thing to do morally. And while it did doubtlessly help the arms industry, the main point was to keep two aggressive powers at each others throats instead of attacking anyone else.
As for your previous post: what source do you have for America supporting the Nazis in North Africa, and for opposing Anti-Nazi resistance in Italy? America's first act upon shedding neutrality and entering the war had been to declare war on Japan.
Yes, Japan is better off today than it had been when they had been part of the Axis powers.
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Propaganda Due, or P2, was in the news connected with Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican. They and other groups were US-supported fascists left to resist socialist movements in Europe. Plenty of people in the US government supported fascist ideology, as long as it favored capitalism and US corporations.
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Not really, blatant hypocracy and backsliding are constants of the human condition.
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
That's disgusting. It was war industry profits.
I never, ever, said that was the right thing to do morally. And while it did doubtlessly help the arms industry, the main point was to keep two aggressive powers at each others throats instead of attacking anyone else.
As for your previous post: what source do you have for America supporting the Nazis in North Africa, and for opposing Anti-Nazi resistance in Italy? America's first act upon shedding neutrality and entering the war had been to declare war on Japan.
Yes, Japan is better off today than it had been when they had been part of the Axis powers.
Do you have Spotify?
How do you know that? Nuking 2 cities was the worst crime in history.
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Kraichgauer
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In all fairness, the US had sold weapons to both Iraq and Iran in their war, apparently hoping they would keep each other preoccupied indefinitely. Not that it was right, but it was Saddam who had cut his ties to America when he realized he was being used - and only later did he overstep his perceived bounds.
That's disgusting. It was war industry profits.
I never, ever, said that was the right thing to do morally. And while it did doubtlessly help the arms industry, the main point was to keep two aggressive powers at each others throats instead of attacking anyone else.
As for your previous post: what source do you have for America supporting the Nazis in North Africa, and for opposing Anti-Nazi resistance in Italy? America's first act upon shedding neutrality and entering the war had been to declare war on Japan.
Yes, Japan is better off today than it had been when they had been part of the Axis powers.
Do you have Spotify?
How do you know that? Nuking 2 cities was the worst crime in history.
Do I what-a-fy?
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
Spotify. There's a good Chomsky talk on there about intervention where he talks about the US's first actions in the war.
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