BREAKING: Cold War-era Wahhabism used as tool against Soviets. Saudi Arabia Admits

[Anomalocaris]

You are one wackadoodle.

[Mystic]

You are one wackadoodle.

The only way to be a human in these dark times of ignorance.

[WinterHold]

We -did-.  This is only a revelation to people whose countries sought to and successfully occluded that fact.  

Atlas...atlas..we know that people got fucked.  We've always known.

I don't think that the common westerner know anything outside what the "Mainstream Media" tells them.
I would describe the everyday westerner to be "ignorant beyond limits" when it comes to foreign conditions. In other words; the common westerner is ignorant as shit when it comes to how the world lives.

This is a side-effect of "minding your own interests only and not giving a damn about other nations". i.e a side-effect of nationalism.
And sadly; the west is nationalist AND secular. Weigh the advantages and the disadvantage while considering the examples of the civilian pressure on the governments in both the 2003 Iraq war, and the war in Vietnam.

At many times; the common westerner is another victim of severe ignorance when it comes to foreign knowledge.

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Atlas, the difference between a realist and a conspiracy theorist is the conspiracy theorist is a misanthrope who give short thrift to men's capacity to blunder in so many other ways, while a realist isn't.

Who said that the title "conspiracy theorist" is legit to describe the criticizers of the American and Western foreign policy in the first place?

Many wings in the U.S and the west ruined the world for goods by the development -and the usage- of nuclear weapons; and wings from the east retaliated in response; creating the mess we have today; AKA "age of deterrence".

It's not a conspiracy to say that it's a matter of time before the nuclear winter begins. Soon enough somebody will drop the bomb. Who? IDK.

[WinterHold]

Do you remember this?

3 months have passed now. And this guy is getting crazier. He just humiliated the west by kicking Canada in the groin.

Trump is covering his back. Isn't Trump a traitor?

[The Grand Nudger]

He's always been a run of the mill royal nutter. Just like our current pres has always been a low rent criminal. Just like we've always known that afghanistan was a proxy war.

What do -you- think has changed in the past few months on any of those counts?

[Brian37]

The only "ism" I am into is "Wasabi-ism". That shit is awesome on sushi!

[Aroura]

Not exactly new news. The USA was supplying anti-Soviet elementary school textbooks in Afghanistan into the 1990s. One amusing example of the kind of content we were supplying: T is for topak (gun). How do you use the word? My uncle has a gun. He does jihad with the gun. (Pashto version).

More:

If, out of 10 atheists, five were killed by 1 Muslim, 5 would be left.

5 guns + 5 guns=10 guns

15 bullets -10 bullets=5 bullets

These were children's primers, and used throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban used them, and has reprinted them. At least some of what's happening in those regions can be laid at the feet of American propaganda aimed at schoolchildren...who grew up and retained those lessons.

I think i just threw up a little. That's vile.

[brewer]

OP: If you'd (your nation/state) give up religion all together then you couldn't be manipulated and used as a tool.

The religious have always been manipulated

[WinterHold]

He's always been a run of the mill royal nutter.  Just like our current pres has always been a low rent criminal.  Just like we've always known that afghanistan was a proxy war.

What do -you- think has changed in the past few months on any of those counts?

What changed is that he can wage economical war on western countries like Canada, publicly.
In other words; this act was impossible in the previous months. Matter in fact, without the U.S's current protection of MBS, he wouldn't had commit this insane act of aggression against Canada.

Wake up, Trump is destroying the west and one day trash like MBS will fly planes into your cities. That's what changed.
The world changed. That's what happened in the previous months.

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The only "ism" I am into is "Wasabi-ism". That shit is awesome on sushi!

Are you kidding? Salmon rolls with Wasabi=mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Not exactly new news. The USA was supplying anti-Soviet elementary school textbooks in Afghanistan into the 1990s. One amusing example of the kind of content we were supplying: T is for topak (gun). How do you use the word? My uncle has a gun. He does jihad with the gun. (Pashto version).

More:

If, out of 10 atheists, five were killed by 1 Muslim, 5 would be left.

5 guns + 5 guns=10 guns

15 bullets -10 bullets=5 bullets

These were children's primers, and used throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban used them, and has reprinted them. At least some of what's happening in those regions can be laid at the feet of American propaganda aimed at schoolchildren...who grew up and retained those lessons.

I think i just threw up a little.  That's vile.

The spread of the Wahhabi cause is the best service for the disgusting proxy wars launched by the U.S in the Middle East.
Russia under Putin responded with the spread of the Shiite cause, best service for its disgusting proxy war too.

And the civilians pay the price.

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OP: If you'd (your nation/state) give up religion all together then you couldn't be manipulated and used as a tool.

The religious have always been manipulated

How do we win against tyrants and a religious institution built to serve invaders?

[ReptilianPeon]

Aren't these the same group of people that had King Faisal murdered because he thought that the Saudi Kingdom could benefit from having a television station? The royalty of today make King Feisal sound reasonable, perhaps? Arabia used to be so much more secular!