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Warren Stupidity

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4. The only surprising thing here is that we still

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 02:22 PM

Sep 2015

haven't figured out that supporting Sunni jihadists is supporting ISIS. Our efforts to topple Assad funded and armed ISIS. We haven't toppled Assad. The alawite Syrians know that defeat means they will be massacred, so they will fight until the end. All we are doing, by insisting on that defeat, is guaranteeing that this conflict will continue.

Oh, and we are falling down the same pit in Yemen.

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Russia Surprises U.S. With Accord on Battling ISIS [View all] Purveyor Sep 2015 OP

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