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AngryAmish

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16. Maybe setting the Arab world on fire was a terrible idea.

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 09:02 AM

Apr 2017

The US decided that "color revolutions" were a good thing. This was a bipartisan foreign policy goal. Actually, calling it bipartisan is a misnomer. The CIA/State Dept/NGO types are doing this since the Clinton Administration. No one voted for this.

It worked well in the Warsaw Pact. Mostly nonviolent and turned a lot of nations into the US sphere of influence.

It was a train wreck in the Arab world since the Arab world is different. And no one in out government could see it coming because the US educational system teaches that everyone is basically the same. Guess what? This is a quasi religious belief without a basis in fact. We never thought formenting revolution could go wrong. Oops.

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Weren't the chemical weapons from Syria taken away by Russia? [View all] Le Gaucher Apr 2017 OP

We were taken as fools AngryAmish Apr 2017 #1

Who are you calling a "fool" specifically"? trump admin? Cha Apr 2017 #2

Trump administration and the entire US foreign policy apparatus. AngryAmish Apr 2017 #8

Can't defend the Trump administration, but whathehell Apr 2017 #15

Maybe setting the Arab world on fire was a terrible idea. AngryAmish Apr 2017 #16

---- whathehell Apr 2017 #10

"The US are fools"? whathehell Apr 2017 #7

The US policy in the Middle East has sucked for generations AngryAmish Apr 2017 #17

Along with that of Brits and the rest of the West...Why just single out the U.S.? whathehell Apr 2017 #19

I am not the Brits, that's why. AngryAmish Apr 2017 #20

You don't need to be.. whathehell Apr 2017 #21

That was the claim a couple months ago FBaggins Apr 2017 #3

The removal and-or destruction was supervised by the UN and OPCW onenote Apr 2017 #4

Good question.. Found this.. Cha Apr 2017 #5

So they missed a few? Or Putin saying recent 'chem attack' disnt happen? jmg257 Apr 2017 #9

Evidently not all his "stockpile" who knows what they Cha Apr 2017 #13

Russia has been Syria's military ally for decades. DetlefK Apr 2017 #6

"Ally" is the wrong word in this case FBaggins Apr 2017 #11

good point.. annabanana Apr 2017 #18

Ah, thanks for the reasoning on why putin is doubling down Cha Apr 2017 #12

the planes that bombed the people came from there..and sarah FAILIN Apr 2017 #14