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(8,812 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Did the bombing and ground troops in Iraq allow for the dam's control to be taken back from ISIS?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)on the mountain top to escape their entrapment?" If you are trying to make a point, why don't you use statements in lieu of insinuating by question?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)If the bombing helped the group on the mountain top escape then we must continue bombing. Actually it's pretty simple when you put it like that.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)I thought it only polite to point it out.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Wants everything given. The truth is when see a post they try to rewrite and tell their own story, yep absurdity. But sometimes the cat likes to play with their prey before the kill.
onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)Please note, though, that Mr. Brand is speaking factually when he mentions that ISIS was supported, trained, and armed by the US -- just like the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the late 1970s and the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
We are being asked to believe (by the corporate media) that the US keeps losing control of its terrorist creations: the Mujahideen morphed into Al Qaeda, and the Syrian resistance morphed into ISIS -- like 2 monsters that Frankenstein created. Ooopsie!!!!
Which do you believe, then: that the US is monstrously and serially incompetent -- or that it has other objectives than "peace and stability" in mind?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)At this point in time it is unimportant who trained who, this is a radical group, it isn't just one country who view this group as radical. They have seized an opportunity in Iraq and Syria. Hitler also sought to control the world, he failed, this group will also fail. Some may seek to return to the Seventh century, I live in the world where I have been placed, do not desire to time warp backwards.
onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)I think it is extremely important to understand the source of terrorism. If we try only to treat the symptoms, and not the disease itself, then we are doomed to repeat the symptoms over and over again.
ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Contras, are symptoms, and corporate control of the US government is the disease.
As a consequence of the disease, US foreign policy has had one central aim since WWII: to maximize the profits of the corporations that run the US government. It is in their interests to have weak national governments (unable to defend themselves against corporate power) and to have eternal war (it's good for arms sales, for oil prices, for companies that service the military, and as an excuse for suppressing dissent and limiting freedoms at home). That's why we see so many well-funded, armed, and organized terrorists in the world.
You do live in the world that you have been placed, and it is understandable that you do not desire to warp time backwards. However, a peek at Orwell's 1984 may not bee such a bad thing, if you want to understand the world you currently live in.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Corporations was created. These groups hails from ancestors who has fought for years, what do you think caused them to have war after war?
onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)Historically, the powerful were mainly royalty -- and they made plenty of wars.
Today, the powerful are the very wealthy -- corporations are their instruments, and they make plenty of wars, too.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)Have a good night ...
still_one
(92,116 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)every word he said and have the same thoughts about Obama.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)... definitely has some social value, and some comic value.
Mr. Obama is, like every other president since Eisenhower, nakedly a shill for the corporate state -- draped in a gaudy flag.
Mr. Brand points out his nakedness, for all to see -- at least those not completely blinded by the dazzling propaganda machine.
Bravo!!!!
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yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)THATS for another post... not here. IF SOMEONE posted something here that was taken to A JURY SHOW the results..BUT NO ONE DID. Hello?
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Calm down. Jeez.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)it is unfortunate that these kinds of analysis are only watched by a very small group.
Perhaps, if we would be allowed to see the results of only two of our bombs, people might think twice about their effectiveness. I for what it is worth think that we just allow ISIS to get more and more recruits.