http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/arab-spring-run-amok-brotherhood-starts-crucifixions/
Oh my God…
Out with one, and in with one who might be worse…
And these are the heros of the “Arab Spring” that our .gov has suported.
Can’t wait to see what comes out of Syria.
That’s the bitch about free elections. Folks don’t always elect who we want them too.
Hell, I bet dollars to doughnuts there are a few folks right here in the good ole U.S. of A. who aren’t real thrilled every four years.
But electing religious extremists and zealots is generally a bad idea. A really bad idea.
Fuck 'em. Take the foreign aid we’re pissing away on Egypt and repave a road or two here at home.
Kind of like we supported the Taliban back in the day. A shitty communist government is still better than no gov in most situations.
Lesser of two evils, I guess.
We’ll have to treat 'em like we did Saddam back in the day. But eventually they WILL become a threat to American interests.
We supported the mujahadin not the Taliban.
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Right I said it for dramatic effect as sometimes the lines are heavily blurred.
The government the Taliban overthrew were communist.
The Northern Alliance is who we supported, and they were mujahadin by our definition. AQ assassinated the NA head the day before 9/11.
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I did not know that…
Wow…
Thanks friend. I didn’t know that as well. Don’t know what you dont know. I’ve never had the opportunity to go. Just Iraq so I should stop spreading slander. ha. Carry on with your convo boys. My services aren’t needed.
The assassination of Massoud is considered to have a strong connection to the September 11 attacks in 2001 on U.S. soil which killed nearly 3,000 people and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.
I’m not saying he was saint by US standards of politics but was FAR better than the Taliban. Once the USSR fell, and Clinton got in office we basically abandoned all these fledgling movements around the globe including the shia in Iraq.
Massoud was bascially the the only guy stopping the Taliban from taking over all of Afghanistan, and its who we supported along with inbedding our SF guys with them to oust the Taliban.
Theres a really good book: http://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Attack-Personal-Account-Commander/dp/0307237400 people should read. We basically dropped these guys in with a suit case of cash, and like any good Afghan they fought for us with our air support and wads of $100’s.
I just ordered it. Thanks, man.
Cool. These were basically the first guys we dropped in within weeks of 9/11, and before any SF guys got there. Gives a lot of insight into our first reaction on the ground to 9/11.
“As far as I know, the White House invitation for Morsi in September still stands – nor have I heard the slightest hint of criticism from any top U.S. government leadership figure about Morsi’s coup. He knows he’s on solid ground with this administration,” Lopez said.
Hussein Obama, and his administration(his real administration, which includes Bill Ayers & his bitch Bernadine Dorn), are the engineers of the whole Arab spring thing. According to the FBI, at one time, Ayers, Dorn, and the rest of the “weather underground,” envisioned exterminating 25,000,000 Americans.
It was from the living room of those two democidal intellectual heros of the DNC that Hussein Obama kicked off his political career…
After you read Jawbreaker, you may wish to read First In by Gary Schroen, and then The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm.
http://www.amazon.com/First-In-Insiders-Spearheaded-Afghanistan/dp/0345496612/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/The-Only-Thing-Worth-Dying/dp/0061661228/ref=pd_sim_b_9
It’s worth reading all three, to get different pieces of that first campaign.
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I own both of those already. They came in a week ago. I just haven’t had time to start them. (It’s also of note that they’re on the “People who bought this book also bought…” list on Amazon.)
You might dig these two.
They give a lot of good background about those two countries. And the Assassin’s Gate gives a lot of good background about neo-cons, isolationists, and democrats reasons, and positions regarding an invasion of Iraq. You, and Belmont will dig both of those I think.
The Assassin’s gate has kind of a liberal tone, but not in a bad way. The dude doesn’t preach liberalism, socialism, or communism, or anything, and he seems to be one of the social liberals, fiscally conservative, liberatarian dudes.
And regarding soldier accounts I very much enjoyed:
http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Kandahar-Story-Fight-Against/dp/0553807579/ref=pd_sim_b_1
WHAT.