I agree with much (though not all) of what has already been said by Dave48, joebloggs, tommyyardin, dudeofrude
The attack on Manchester is absolutely abhorrent. We all know this, we can all agree on that. I like many, if not all here, don't have the words the express how I feel about such actions.
But why are these things happenin?
I think Lew mentioned somewhere the first Gulf war, when he actually meant the second Gulf War. The first being the Iran Iraq war, a proxy war indirectly funded by America via Saudi Arabia. The Americans wanted to sort Iran out after they overthrew the American puppet Mahammad Reza Pahlavi (The Shah of Iran) in an Islamic Revolution.
And let us be clear, Mahammad Reza Pahlavi was a filthy murderous bastard of a dictator.
So a pissed of America came up with a scheme in which another of it’s filthy murderous dictators Saddam Hussein would take on Iran. Meanwhile the USSR decided to back Iran to the hilt. At roughly the same time the US decided to give the USSR it’s Vietnam and destabilised Afghanistan.
And on and on and on it goes.
Oh, and don’t forget our long-standing partners in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia, perhaps the dirtiest, nastiest most repressive regime of them all, and the birth place of Wahhabism the ideology that the so called Islamic State adhere to. I wonder – where does IS get it’s funding from?
This is deacdes of bloody and murderous Western foreign policy. The British Empire may thankfully long be dead, but we are still imperialists.
So as I’ve said many times on this forum. Who are the terrorists? Who are the real terrorists?
The attack on Manchester is absolutely abhorrent. We all know this, we can all agree on that. I like many, if not all here, don't have the words the express how I feel about such actions.
But why are these things happenin?
I think Lew mentioned somewhere the first Gulf war, when he actually meant the second Gulf War. The first being the Iran Iraq war, a proxy war indirectly funded by America via Saudi Arabia. The Americans wanted to sort Iran out after they overthrew the American puppet Mahammad Reza Pahlavi (The Shah of Iran) in an Islamic Revolution.
And let us be clear, Mahammad Reza Pahlavi was a filthy murderous bastard of a dictator.
So a pissed of America came up with a scheme in which another of it’s filthy murderous dictators Saddam Hussein would take on Iran. Meanwhile the USSR decided to back Iran to the hilt. At roughly the same time the US decided to give the USSR it’s Vietnam and destabilised Afghanistan.
And on and on and on it goes.
Oh, and don’t forget our long-standing partners in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia, perhaps the dirtiest, nastiest most repressive regime of them all, and the birth place of Wahhabism the ideology that the so called Islamic State adhere to. I wonder – where does IS get it’s funding from?
This is deacdes of bloody and murderous Western foreign policy. The British Empire may thankfully long be dead, but we are still imperialists.
So as I’ve said many times on this forum. Who are the terrorists? Who are the real terrorists?