Is Wuhan in Florida?
Also joking.
And, have god, jc, and allah call their people homeâŚ
The US Taliban leader al Insantis, is.
Wuhan is the latest adventure park ride in Florida.
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Someone has to ban the ban on mask bans, and hopefully theyâre smart enough to be able to process triple negatives. Which immediately rules out 95% of Repubs, of course. Too stupid to function, too smart for earthwormsâŚ
Mr. Black.
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Itâd definitely help.
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I know! I know! It was this dude:
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If Frank Zappa and Queen had done a mashupâŚ
They donât just get along, theyâre actively trying to get the UN to support their push for an independent Kurdistan made up of Kurdish territories from those three countries. Thatâs why Turkeyâs labelled them terrorists and supported attacks into Syrian Kurdish territories even while we were in there with them fighting ISIS.
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Wonât do a damned thing for peace. The 1918 borders were drawn specifically to keep the region at war with itself by actively crossing ethnic boundaries and making sure people who hated each other were stuffed into the same nations.
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Prior to that, it was a veritable paradise with zero conflict and âbordersâ, spheres of influence and centers of power never existed at all.
That said, the first Western imperialist was Alexander the Great Killer of Men, and no one has learned a thing ever since.
Right, because the Doolittle raid in April of 1942 was such a piece of precision bombing, and all of the industrial targets they hit were 100% staffed with soldiers, right?
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Why is peace in the middle east an objective? Gosh, I dunno, possibly because a lot of our people are from there. Or because violent extremism tends to be infectious, and prolonged periods of destabilization and terrorism donât of their own accord.
The people who wind up becoming addicted to the violence and power that wielding it brings, also donât tend to say âok, Iâve attacked the guys I hated, and thatâs thatâ. They go and find other people to blow up. As well, they teach others to be radicalized terrorists, often ones with no personal agenda beyond âmake myself feel powerful by scaring and murdering peopleâ, which has this nasty way of killing us when they realize âyou know whatâll get me noticed? Killing Americans.â
Sticking your head in the sand and insisting âWe should all be pacifists and itâll all be okâ is a great way to invite violent actors to put the rest of you in the ground, too.
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Prior to 1918, the Ottomans did a fairly decent job of having local groups running their local areas, in fact. You donât get a stable empire for almost a thousand years by fomenting internal conflict.
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My grandparents left extreme NW Persia in 1906/1911 due to extreme persecution by turks and kurds.
Borders are an illusion.
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As we see now in our nation.
I think that question should be amended to add âfor the U.S (and the West).â
I think the main answer is Oil.
I realize there is the argument about infectiousness but thatâs the same argument that was used in Vietnam.
I thought that one had been discredited long ago.
If it wasnât for the need for oil that is in the region no-one would give a damn.
Same applies to Venezuela.
In my opinion, this is only a slight oversimplification.
While Iâm oversimplifying, itâs interesting in this thread to see all the statements from what used to be called âhawksâ and essentially arguments for nation-building.
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Errr, you might want to google âCurtis Lemay Firebomingâ or take a look into what we did in cutting off their merchant marine fleet activities. The Japanese population suffered horribly and not just at âthe very endâ.
âLeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 67 Japanese cities and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This included the firebombing of Tokyo â known in official documents as the âOperation Meetinghouseâ air raid on the night of March 9â10, 1945 â which proved to be the single most destructive bombing raid of the war.â
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âPrecise figures are not available, but the strategic bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500,000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless.â
So we attempted to wipe out 67 cities and in the end selected two that had been spared up to that point simply because they had little or no military value. As an example to Russia what we could now do, well they made the point quite wellâŚ
Source:
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He also wrote one about Iraq. I recommend both.
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