..US arming Sunni insurgents to fight al Qaeda if they SWEAR not to turn around and fight the US military?
Come one! that's a great one!
Come one! that's a great one!
So no-one here is going after the ...
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We are only giving them freedom loving bullets that can't penetrate American adipose layers.
We're a like a child who wants to play so badly, we start off with "HO" so our retarded neighbor will play "Horse".
I'm sure the USA arming the Sunnis will do a great job of calming the sectarian hatred.
Can you imagine the reaction of the guys in the field?
"We've given WHAT to WHO??"
"We've given WHAT to WHO??"
Give this administration British accents and Oval Office meetings would probably resemble Monty Python skits.
Sunni's after being given the goods: "FOOOOOOOLED YOUUU!!"
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb
Problem: "We need to think of a way to quell fighting in the middle east, but we don't want to make Arabs hate the USA."
Solution: "I know! Let's invade two Arab countries, one of which poses no threat to the USA! And while we're at it, we will smacktalk a few more of them. That will teach them!"
Solution: "I know! Let's invade two Arab countries, one of which poses no threat to the USA! And while we're at it, we will smacktalk a few more of them. That will teach them!"
Problem: "We need to calm this sectarian violence, but we don't want to appear to be taking sides."
Solution: "I know! Let's arm one side! Which one? Hell if I know, anyone got a quarter?"
Solution: "I know! Let's arm one side! Which one? Hell if I know, anyone got a quarter?"
Problem: "Most Americans don't agree with the war, and want us to bring our soldiers home."
Solution: "I know! Let's send 20,000 more troops over there!"
Solution: "I know! Let's send 20,000 more troops over there!"
Then the Sunni reaction:
"Really? You want to GIVE us weapons....seriously? You're just going to give them to us. What? Oh sure!! *snigger*. You have our WORD that we *snigger* won't use them on you....(Are these guy for real?)....
"Really? You want to GIVE us weapons....seriously? You're just going to give them to us. What? Oh sure!! *snigger*. You have our WORD that we *snigger* won't use them on you....(Are these guy for real?)....
hey, didn't we do this with the mujahedeen back in the late 1970s so they could fight russia? isn't it highly probable that al qaeda was the offspring of that?
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It was more like the 80s. Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Al Qaeda and the Mujahedeen the same thing?
No that was the Taliban..... I think?
It had some part in it. Though the anti-US sentiment came later.
But hey, it's not like you guys make a habit of repeating mishtakes.
Consider yourself corrected.
That's like saying "Buick le Sabre" when you mean "motorized vehicle." It's a big difference, even in a broad brush...think of the confusion if you were trying to make traffic laws.
AQ is a specific organization. Mooj is generic term used by any and everyone to refer to "holy warriors." Sunnis and shiites in the act of killing each other might both think of themselves as mujahideen and the other side as apostates/infidels.
No, it was AQ. Bin Laden was our guy in Afghanistan, and funneled foreign fighters and weapons into the country vs. the Russkies. The Taliban was an Afghani movement of religious students which ended up becoming a militant armed faction and took control of the gov't.No that was the Taliban..... I think?
Roughly.