(01-04-2020, 02:19 AM)Predator Wrote:

(01-04-2020, 12:17 AM)JackCity Wrote: How can you say with a straight face that Irans sole purpose is to destabilize the middle east while America peddles guns to,  creates splinter groups while also fighting against people trying to take down ISIS, while also being buddies with Saudi Arabia in the process? It take a large amount of cognitive dissonance to ignore Amercias role in the destabilization of the middle east over the past 20 years

Because one has nothing to do with others.

We sell guns because there are a whole lot of people in the middle east that don't want to be controlled by organizations like ISIS and Iran who want to turn the whole region into a theocratic Islamic state and enforce brutal sharia law on its subjects. Why wouldn't we work with the Saudis? Iran has always hated them for being Sunni and has even attacked them recently.

Besides, the vast majority of the weapons in the middle east, especially those owned by the Islamic extremest, have Russian origins which are supplied through Syria and Iran.

There are no good bedfellows in the middle east. You have to find someone willing to work with you over there, and although the have a bad humanitarian record, it pales in comparison to most other countries in the region including Iran.

You sold guns to and helped train groups which destabilized the region. its quite literally part of the US MO. 

The Saudi's fund terror groups and have human rights atrocities, Amercia just doesn't care as long as they have oil and help their cause.  America isn't there for humanitarian reasons no matter how much you want to delude yourself

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