US Doesn't Trust Its Deployed Marines Not To Shoot Secretary of Defense

[lucrezaborgia]

(03-20-2012 07:21 PM)Bill Wrote:  Considering the British exploitation, colonialism, and the long term impact of their random nation-shaping cartography... It's amazing it's as "good" as it is these days.

The fall of the Ottoman and Russian empires left a huge power void in the area that Britain and other European powers jumped in on. Then WWI (President Wilson should have shoved those 14 points up his ass for all they were worth.) and Nationalism (pre-WWI but cemented with it) came along and kept the chaos going. It's almost comical until you realize how many people have died over all this over the past 100 years.

The #1 response I wanted to say to people who spouted over and over that Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction" was DUH! Of course we know he has them, we gave them to him. We also informally supported Osama. Shall we make a list of governments and leaders who have been propped up in the Middle East that have later become a nuisance to us? It's a lot longer than most people think!

The trees of colonialism and Communist proxy wars have borne some awesome fruit!