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bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
3. check out the start of "Charlie Wilson war"...who did CIA recruit & train to fight Russians! ;) So no blame for the USSR for invading Afghanistan in the first place, and no evidence to support your claim of US funding for ISIS/ISIL (or their precursor, AQI). Are you trying to win a prize for hand waving? I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. The U.S. did and does fund Saudi Arabia, correct? The Saudis also funded the Mujahideen. If the answer to my question above is "yes", then the U.S. funded the Mujahadeen + Saudia Arabia funded the Mujahadeen = the U.S. funded the Mujahadeen. No? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. Yes, the US funds Wahhabism for oil. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. Wahhabi'ism the ideology of ISIS, eh? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. They do seem to be Sunni. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Actually, since WWII, both Russia and the U.S. are both equally to blame with their "tit for tat" acts of stupidity around the world. Both countries have enough problems at home to fix and they should be concentrating on them instead of going around destabilising the rest of the world. Quite frankly the U.N. would be the best way to fix world problems if those ridiculous powers of veto were totally scrapped. That way the world has a whole would have its say instead of just the power hungry greedy ones just wanting the same old "tit for tat" acts of stupidity to continue. Havn't these "tit for tat" acts of stupidity by power hungry countries, which have for so long dogged our world history, enough to learn from? Can't we finally put an end to "merry-go-round" of such acts in history and just become one whole peaceful planet? Cheers. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Can't we finally put an end to "merry-go-round" of such acts in history and just become one whole peaceful planet? Where's the profit motive in that? |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
3. check out the start of "Charlie Wilson war"...who did CIA recruit & train to fight Russians! ;) Did US try to overthrown Bashar al-Assad? YES! How? - http://www.alternet.org/world/us-has-been-pushing-overthrow-assad-syria-10-years - http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=13286 Hence, you did fund the ISIS...just not from State Dept., of course! ;) Playing a double game again with CIA? - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1/14/1178686/-How-the-US-help-put-Assad-in-power-in-Syria You don't get much "public knowledge" of what "the Company" works outside US?! :D ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. No, the Saudi Arabia funds US...has been for over 40 years! ;) & yes, CIA (& US over "the Company") did fund Mujaheddin! Again, check your Congressional hearings & "Charlie Wilson's war"... ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
+1 non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. I'm not sure anybody has made the case that the US (via the CIA) did not fund the Mujahideen, so there's little need to repeat the claim, it is not contested. You though, continue to avoid answering the questions: Do you believe is was acceptable for the USSR to invade Afghanistan? Do you believe that those opposed to that invasion should not have been supported? Why do you believe that the creation of Al Qaeda is the fault of the CIA rather than the USSR or Saudi Arabia? Is your comment about US funding of ISIS: Did US try to overthrown Bashar al-Assad? somehow meant to substantiate your earlier comment: invaded Iraq...funded ISIL there, now it's gone rogue...didn't work out that well, did it? ? If so it's not clear that it does. The US supported opponents to Bashar al-Assad, no argument there. ISIS is opposed to Bashar al-Assad, again no argument. Aren't there several groups in Syria opposed to Bashar al-Assad? Does the US support all of them? From the Alternet.org article you linked: ISIS was developing long before it burst into the news, its leaders organizing in U.S. prison camps in Iraq. Are you suggesting that the "funding" the US provided to ISIL in Iraq was "room and board" while its leaders were being held in prison camps? If so, you appear to have an odd criteria for what counts as funding, though if this was the funding, would you have preferred the US let its prisoners starve? Note, the intent here is not to suggest the US is innocent, as stated earlier, "focusing solely on the faults of the US is an over-simplification". It seems in your zeal to show how bad the US has been, you have missed the faults of anybody else involved (the USSR, Saudi Arabia, Saddam Hussein, etc, etc). I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Are you sure about the U.N., Wiggo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fch3U2kcgPw
Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
The US is blamed for the creation of Al Qaeda; this blame is assigned as a result of CIA support for the Mujahideen. USSR & Afghanistan had some dispute in borders...it's the other part of the World, so why would you (USA) care? I didn't & I don't...Afghanistan is the so far in Asia, that whatever happens there is of "no significance to Europe at all"! As it's (even filmed) in "Charlie Wilson's war", you made sure to supply weapons only to fight communists...so it was your "greed & hate" who got you to make friends with Mujaheddin...even though, they're not culturally or in any other way type of your ally! But as Sun Tzu say, quoted by M.Corleone: But in CIA & USA it was friendship with Mujaheddin: USSR had her vices...now it's dissolved! & the last time it (Russia) engaged in Georgia, US just stood still...even annex of Crimea was only watched by US & NATO... Saudi Arabia still funds US...so would you want to go to war, over dept with your partner? Saddam Hussein only did acts in their country & Kuwait...so that's not much! But Kuwait was important for oil, so you got to go to war over oil (price)...& it's the same with Iraq: you let Saddam Hussein live, until it started selling oil for euros...making your "petro-dollar" weak! Same thing Gaddafi made & he was invaded & executed! US only goes to war for business! So don't give me your bull-shit of "we're the good guys, we're the police in the World"...'cause if US was a cop, it would be Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa! :D non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Are you sure about the U.N., Wiggo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fch3U2kcgPw There have been many other countries that have been removed for a lot of other bad lists too Sarge and I won't say that my country isn't 1 of them either, because it is. And so a few other U.N. processes will also need to be looked at as well, but that can be done as well. ;-) Cheers. |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
USSR & Afghanistan had some dispute in borders...it's the other part of the World, so why would you (USA) care? Fair enough. You don't believe that others who are able to provide assistance, should do so when it's needed? As it's (even filmed) in "Charlie Wilson's war", you made sure to supply weapons only to fight communists...so it was your "greed & hate" who got you to make friends with Mujaheddin...even though, they're not culturally or in any other way type of your ally! Hold on a second, if the US was wrong to provide assistance to Afghanistan, why would it have been right to do so for Georgia or Crimea? From a US perspective, all three are "far off lands". Saudi Arabia still funds US...so would you want to go to war, over dept with your partner? Please provide some data to support your claim of Saudi funding of the US. Saddam Hussein only did acts in their country & Kuwait...so that's not much! But Kuwait was important for oil, so you got to go to war over oil (price)...& it's the same with Iraq: you let Saddam Hussein live, until it started selling oil for euros...making your "petro-dollar" weak! If you were a Kuwaiti would you have thought it "not much" to have been invaded by Hussein? US only goes to war for business! So don't give me your bull-shit of "we're the good guys, we're the police in the World"...'cause if US was a cop, it would be Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa! Please don't put words in the mouths of others. When somebody claims the US as being the "good guys", then you can make the criticism, not before. I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
USSR & Afghanistan had some dispute in borders...it's the other part of the World, so why would you (USA) care? About Afghanistan: well...what do you care about tribes that smuggle Opium for?! Unless you wanna control Opium with CIA links & bring down some SSSR machinery with your guns! Not much of a interest there in '80s, other then to spite "the cold war enemy"... so, please be intelligence enough not to talk about: providing assistance! 'cause it wasn't an assistance...you know what assistance is in war? sending them humanitarian help (food, medicine, etc.)...call it what it was: providing interest in dispute with cold war enemy! exactly...so, why didn't you help out Crimea & Georgia...while you wanted to help out Afghanistan in '80s & occupied it now? 'cause you needed someone to fight against SSSR in '80s...only front available was Afghanistan...you didn't care about Afghanistan people...& you didn't care about them now! & 'cause you occupied Afghanistan to get some "special resources", which will be needed in 21st century! that's why you occupied it now... Saudi funding US: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/revealed-saudi-arabia-using-secret-1974-us-debt-deal-to-block-the-release-of-911-information/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untold-story-behind-saudi-arabia-s-41-year-u-s-debt-secret seems to me you don't know where "your debt" is? $117 billion so far...imagine what would happen to US if Saudi's come to collect all $117 billion tomorrow?! :D About Kuwait: please don't be sentimental about the Kuwait, their people & bring lies again...Saudi's weren't going to brought the price of oil down in late '80s & start of '90s, so you managed to go to war & occupy Kuwait so that it can be "US oil colony"! Even had dispute with "your own old friend" Saddam Hussein, who US put on power in Iraq... ;) About "good guys": somebody has brought it before in this topic...check the posts, if you don't believe me! ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
blaming the US for Al Qaeda is, at best, an over simplification. You are either some "hackler"...or you're on some heavy drugs! ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Istanbul Ataturk airport attack. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36662684 Only a few weeks ago my sister was in Turkey on holiday, not Istanbul though. She was surprised not seeing any armed police or military on the airport they came to... |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
Istanbul Ataturk airport attack. Attacking "infidels" is one thing...but attacking "their own" - totally different! Now you see what US has awaken, when it wanted to overthrown al-Assad! Hope it doesn't happen again...never! :( non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
blaming the US for Al Qaeda is, at best, an over simplification. What belief about human DNA? what are you talking about? & what evil evolving? :/ non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
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