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ronnie624

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8. Most of the violence in the Middle East, for around a century now,

Reply to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 13, 2012, 12:39 PM

Sep 2012

has been a bi-product of Western intervention, and mostly us killing them, or instigating violence among them.

It's funny how people leave out the most important element of influence when analyzing events in the Middle East.

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