Quoted from Box A Rox

Is that what I support Bucky???
Please post where I support redeployment of troops & Equipment to Iraq...
and
Please post where I "FULLY SUPPORT the invasion of Syria...

Really Bucky... ya just gotta stop making this stuff up!

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So, because Obama is doing it, you now would fully support a large scale bombing campaign AND redeployment of troops and equipment back to Iraq?

And not only that, You'll also fully support the (eventual) invasion of Syria? You'll support Obama if he has to team up with Assad?

Quoted from BuckStrider

Please go back to grade school and learn what a period (.) and a question mark (?) at the end of sentences mean because it's obvious your teacher failed the first time around.

I bolded the question marks for you sunshine (Protip: The is a difference between a question mark and a period.)

Quoted from joebxr

If we have a strategy and say we do and/or explain our strategy...THAT IS DUMB!
If we do this ALONE again, THAT IS DUMB!

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Quoted from BuckStrider

This statement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Why would we install puppets when there were already strongmen in place? And even if I could believe that, we are obviously doing a piss poor job of it. Maybe we should take lessons from Putin, since it seems he's p. good at it

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The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond

World War I transformed the Middle East in ways it had not seen for centuries. The Europeans, who had colonized much of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, completed the takeover with the territories of Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.

The modern boundaries of the Middle East emerged from the war. So did modern Arab nationalist movements and embryonic Islamic movements. NPR's Mike Shuster reports on World War I and its aftermath as he continues his series on the history of Western involvement in the Middle East.

With the onset of WWI, the French and the British sent armies and agents into the Middle East, to foment revolts in the Arabian Peninsula and to seize Iraq, Syria and Palestine. In 1916, French and British diplomats secretly reached the Sykes-Picot agreement, carving up the Middle East into spheres of influence for their respective countries. That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.

Under the mandate system, Syria and Lebanon went to the French. The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.

"Everyone understood at the time that this was a thinly disguised new form of colonialism...," says Zachary Lockman, professor of Middle East history at New York University. "The British and French had no thought of going anywhere anytime soon, and fully intended to remain in control of these territories for the indefinite future."

But almost immediately after the war, Arab resistance movements emerged to challenge European dominance.

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Quoted from Henry

Actually we did along with countless resistance groups in the area, we create the boogey man now we have to pay to destroy the boogey man, its the American way

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Quoted from joebxr

I'm trying to figure out if these statements were ever really made and who really made them?

Quoted from BuckStrider

It seems Boxy has abandoned his thread.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Sitting in my hotel room, watching the surf roll over the sand.
I would comment if there were a post worthy of a reply.