ISIS to Putin: "We are coming for Russia!"

[Serb]

You do realize we are bombing the crap out of ISIS and are sending troops to Iraq to assist the Iraqis to defeat ISIS? SecDef Hagel is currently in Turkey to build an anti-ISIS coalition.

Why would we be dedicating resources to defeat our 'lackeys'?

You do realize that you always do the same? First you create the Taliban/ISIS support it, finance it, train it, arm it, then you bomb them.

[Serb]

Let's be fair, Russians do this all the time--Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, etc. Serb just isn't familiar with the patterns of behavior of civilized countries.

The pattern of behavior of "civilized country":

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html

Sure thing, with just two interventions Russia is not qualified to be truly "civilized" in a Western understanding of the term.
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[Serb]

Russia is anti-freedom.

(and obligatory belly dance video)

Where is Ted Striker, when you need him?

[Egbert]

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(and obligatory belly dance video)

[regexcellent]

You do realize that you always do the same? First you create the Taliban/ISIS support it, finance it, train it, arm it, then you bomb them.

We didn't create either of those, what the **** are you talking about.

[Dr Strangelove]

American proponents of intervention in Syria wanted Congressional approval. Maybe stop getting your news from Pravda.

Congress wanted the blessing of the international community, the international community took the issue to the UN, the UN put the issue before the Security Council, Russia voted to wait and see, and guess what? They were right. Imagine if those arms were in ISIS hands now.

[Hauldren Collider]

Sometimes I wonder if Doc S is one of those people that thinks that all that stuff against Pol Pot was just slander by capitalist oppressors.

[Felch]

I get the feeling he was some square who picked up a Howard Zinn book at some point and mistook it for mystical revelation.

[Fake Boris]

We didn't create either of those, what the **** are you talking about.

Serb is correct. There's a long standing history of the US arming islamists. Even the Iranian revolution was initially propped by the US.

[Felch]

The Shah was our puppet. Why would we prop up his enemies?

[Dr Strangelove]

The Shah was our puppet. Why would we prop up his enemies?

Because his brutality was embarassing us.

[Hauldren Collider]

He wasn't .01% as brutal as the people who took his place, and let's face it, pretty much all the people he brutalized were bad guys. As dictators go, he was as tame as they come. Like Mubarak, it's stupid to complain about his crimes when the alternatives are so much worse.

[Serb]

Still you overthrew him, despite him being a loyal US lackey for decades

[Serb]

And the "alternative is so much worse" approach have never stopped you from ruining Libya or Iraq.

[Fake Boris]

He wasn't .01% as brutal as the people who took his place, and let's face it, pretty much all the people he brutalized were bad guys. As dictators go, he was as tame as they come. Like Mubarak, it's stupid to complain about his crimes when the alternatives are so much worse.

Wrong as usual. The other alternative to him (besides conservative islamists) were islamic socialists and other secular liberals, which the US definitely didn't want to see seize power.