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And so, in a masterful display of the unpredictable shift of geopolitics, the day was 'saved' when the Iranians decided to step in to bail out their proxy in charge of Iraq. Iranian soldiers, unlike the soldiers of the US-created and US-equipped Iraqi army, were more effective in fighting a relatively small number of militants who demonstrate one of the most basic and dangerous aspects of civil wars. Specifically that when they begin in one country, that seldom means that they stay within the border of that country. In a fine demonstration of the success of the anti-Iranian and supposedly anti-Islamist policies of the United States, a force predominantly supplied by one of the most fanatical regimes in the Middle East, a regime inherently dependent on the United States, is fighting a war with a proxy of the Iranians who have an army equipped by the United States.
More such successes, and Iran will be the geopolitical overlord of all of Southwest and Central Asia. What precise benefit did the overthrow of Mr. Hussein get the United States again?
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Date: 14/6/14 17:55 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 14/6/14 18:15 (UTC)Provided that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan suddenly disappear from reality, that is.
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Date: 15/6/14 02:16 (UTC)Because billions of dollars bought us soldiers who abandoned their weapons.
What precise benefit did the overthrow of Mr. Hussein get the United States again?
We improved their oil infrastructure and started trading it on the petrodollar. Notice the south wasn't going up in flames?
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Date: 15/6/14 05:21 (UTC)Why?
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Date: 15/6/14 21:15 (UTC)Or at least NdGT.
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Date: 15/6/14 22:03 (UTC)I fugure that Maliki wants to be in bed with the Iranians but it remains to be seen how the more Sunni and Sufi aligned south will take that.
Not well, I imagine.
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Date: 16/6/14 01:25 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 17/6/14 18:45 (UTC)And well no shit, never claimed that Maliki was anything other than bad news. The only question was just how "third-world-dictator" he was going to go, and now it seems we have our answer.
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