(September 13, 2014 at 8:26 am)Chuck Wrote:(September 13, 2014 at 2:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: CIA Official Motto: Proudly Overthrowing Fidel Castro Since 1962.
Boru
Since March 1960, officially. Bay of pigs in early 1961 took time to prepare.
(September 13, 2014 at 2:30 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The countries that supply them with the military hardware are the real problems. If they didn't sell them arms they wouldn't have too much to fight with. Then throw in the various folks who supply them with money
and you have a real mess on your hands. Eliminate those groups and and it'll be a lot easier to take out the terrorists. Since the dummies in the CIA are always supplying bad guys with guns and money it might be a good idea to start with them.
The country that supplied their most fancy arms is the United States. We gave the humvees, armored personnel carriers, and the fabled since first gulf war, allegedly invincible, although in reality often blown up, M-1A1 main battle tank. We gave these to them out of the inventory of the US army through the trusty intermediary of the Iraqi army that we trained and whose skills in weapon transfer to inferior opponent under duress surpasses even those of the Italian army of WWII.
As to the majority of their meat and potato arms like rifles and anti-tank missiles, we didn't supply them out of our own inventory, but we encouraged others to when Hillary Clinton thought Assad was the worst thing there could possibly be in that part of the world.
The main problem with American foreign policy is that it's run by idiots.
The British and French caused the Middle East problems 100 years ago when they decided to overthrow the Ottoman Empire and carve up the region with funny lines on a map. The US contributed to the problem when FDR thought that he could bring democracy to the Arabs while fighting WWII but the scumbag ignored that fact that there was no real democracy in America.
The Arab leaders, excluding the dictators, want what they've always wanted, a strong unified led Arab theocracy based upon 7th Century Middle East desert-dwelling Arab cultural and religious ideas. It doesn't matter too much which group of the week brings it about as long as they get it. So the conflict will continue until they get it or until they are all killed off. So unless we are willing to kill all of them it's easier just to let them live in the 7th Century and cut all ties to them.