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Syzygy321

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2. You lost me when you wrote "freedom-loving al-Maliki."

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:57 AM

Aug 2015

You have swallowed a different flavor of Kool-Aid is all.

Not that there is no truth in what you say - my objection is that you are doing the usual nonsense of making a list of bad guys (Bush, ISIS, Sons of Iraq) and then you fantasize that some other force is the good guys (hahaha - al-Maliki!!!). You want a simple narrative where Buffy and Giles battle the forces of Darkness. Then you can say that all blame goes to the said you want to blame.

In fact, there are no particular good guys (and one can argue that even the bad guys - hell, even Bush and a chunk of ISiS - are halfway victims of circumstance.

Oversimplification is bad.

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How the Bush-administration built ISIS. (No, literally.) [View all] DetlefK Aug 2015 OP

Interesting this was posted almost at the same time. Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #1

You lost me when you wrote "freedom-loving al-Maliki." Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #2

That was sarcasm... DetlefK Aug 2015 #4

Ah sorry! I didn't read carefully enough and my head exploded and I quit :). Apologies. Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #5

No. Hillary is the one to blame. leftyladyfrommo Aug 2015 #3

K&R sketchy Aug 2015 #6

This is well-written and important to know sketchy Aug 2015 #7