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In reply to the discussion: They Got Away With It. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)There was no profit goal. Well, there was, but it was secondary, a perk, if it could be accomplished.
The goal was exactly what happened. The obliteration of a nation. Remember how our Talking Shitheads were striving for a tripartate state, dividing it up between Kurds, Shia and Sunni? That was an effort to create a Mesopotamian Balkan state, of three-way warfare destabilizing the other region and drawing in other middle eastern nations.
Now look at Syria. Look at the drumming for war with Iran.
There's a plan there. It's not profits, it's not oil, it's sure as fuck not "liberation." We're there to destroy. To wipe nations off the map. Why? I honestly haven't figured that out yet, my best guess at the moment is that we're making sure nations we have no use for don't fall under anyone else's influence, either.