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Total number of comments: 3 (since 2014-06-12 17:02:38)

Kelly

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  • The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History
    • Kelly 06/12/2014 at 12:12 pm with 1 replies

      And the United States helps all of that by siding, today, with people who try to kill us, tomorrow. They spend billions of dollars fighting something they can't win, losing the lives of many innocent people and a lot of soldiers for nothing. We think that our form of democracy is accepted world wide, like a MasterCard or something. It's all very selfish of us.

    • Kelly 06/12/2014 at 12:09 pm

      Yes, but thereby inviting all kinds of strife and tensions because they would be in the middle of the fight between the two countries. Not to mention those within the as yet unformed Kurdistan who support one side or the other acting from within.

    • Kelly 06/12/2014 at 12:06 pm with 1 replies

      When Hussein was in power, Al Qaeda members or members of any other terrorist group would have been shot on sight. The United States went in there and removed the, albeit evil, leader of that ideology and now there is nothing but terrorist activity popping up all over that country. We need to simply keep our business out of other people's business.

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