(01-04-2020, 10:28 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-04-2020, 03:43 AM)jj82284 Wrote: What?  We should have "meddled" in 79 when this group took our embassy hostage and let more of them meet these 72 virgins.  

Also.   No 53 and the socialist leadership would have turned the country into Venezuela.  The coup of 79 was far worse for the Iranian people than the 53 coup but you and your progressive pals feel the need to constantly remind us of our failed attempts to save these people from bad leadership while they kill innocent protestors, American troops, and hang guys from cranes.

Possible. But Saudi Arabia nationalised its oil fields around the same time. Maybe Iran and Saudi would follow similar paths. Maybe they would be at peace with each other for that reason.

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(01-04-2020, 04:19 AM)Predator Wrote: Sorry but the Russians are supplying the arms that are in the terrorist groups.

The Saudis are funding groups? Which ones? What is known for sure is Iran is funding the most active terrorist groups in the region.

The US supplies almost all of its oil now. We no longer need the middle east for oil. We are there putting our lives on the line to protect people which is much more than what the Irish can say. The Irish have never done anything to help anyone else out.

The Irish took an active military part during the British Empire's rape of Africa and subjection of India for 120 years, so don't preach to us about what is humanitarian. The same empire that split the middle east up in such away to cause civil wars and a legacy of unrest. We are just late in the game still cleaning up you mess.

If it weren't for our humanitarian efforts, you would be speaking German right now. Hell, we took half your people when they were starving to death.

Ireland doesn't do anything humanitarian for the rest of the world. At least we have the fortitude to make the attempt to help someone else out. Heck, it's our military that protects your weak country. Maybe you would understand what being a humanitarian entails if we left you and the rest of Europe to fend on your own. Without us, you humanitarian Europeans would be trying to annihilate each other every 20 years just like you have for 2000 years.

ISIS got a lot of money from somewhere... They came right up to the Saudi border and didn't challenge it.  Probably a coincidence...