RE: ISIS is the Sauds. The Sauds own ISIS. It's America's cold war gift.
August 19, 2016 at 3:12 am
Saying that the U.S/The West is solely responsible for the creation of IS is ignorant.
I too dislike the Western involvement in many Middle Eastern countries, but to completely neglect the extremism all the years of dictatorship has fostered and to look at how the Muslim factions have always been killing the crap out of eachother, be it on a tribal level, or be it like the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Though I absolutely despise the "partnership" between the US and Saudi Arabia, it's ridiculous to think that the thought and act of an Islamic Caliphate is anything new and that it was set up by the west.
But when you look at Afghanistan before the intervention (Which they asked us to), most soldiers didn't volunteer to go and kill "terrorists"... They volunteered to combat the Taleban and to help the civilian population, who were being treated and neglected on the same level as the Islamic State will, if they manage to take more land.
Bodies hanging from the lamps and lying in the street, a complete ban on anything that is western and ONE media.
Oh and lets not forget the Talebans purging any tribes who would dare to disagree with them.
Yes, a few civilian lives were lost, but it is war... As sad as it is, all wars have civilian casualties and when the enemy hides amongst civilians and know how the Rules of War are and how the West have to follow it to the point.
Insurgents like the Taleban and Islamic State uses civilians as a resource.
A disposable resource that they use to the fullest, cause they know the repercussions a civilian death has to the coalition as a whole.
I too dislike the Western involvement in many Middle Eastern countries, but to completely neglect the extremism all the years of dictatorship has fostered and to look at how the Muslim factions have always been killing the crap out of eachother, be it on a tribal level, or be it like the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Though I absolutely despise the "partnership" between the US and Saudi Arabia, it's ridiculous to think that the thought and act of an Islamic Caliphate is anything new and that it was set up by the west.
But when you look at Afghanistan before the intervention (Which they asked us to), most soldiers didn't volunteer to go and kill "terrorists"... They volunteered to combat the Taleban and to help the civilian population, who were being treated and neglected on the same level as the Islamic State will, if they manage to take more land.
Bodies hanging from the lamps and lying in the street, a complete ban on anything that is western and ONE media.
Oh and lets not forget the Talebans purging any tribes who would dare to disagree with them.
Yes, a few civilian lives were lost, but it is war... As sad as it is, all wars have civilian casualties and when the enemy hides amongst civilians and know how the Rules of War are and how the West have to follow it to the point.
Insurgents like the Taleban and Islamic State uses civilians as a resource.
A disposable resource that they use to the fullest, cause they know the repercussions a civilian death has to the coalition as a whole.
