urulokid:nevaehtyler:blackfemalescientist:sniffyjenkins:mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia:explainguncontr
urulokid:nevaehtyler:blackfemalescientist:sniffyjenkins:mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia:explainguncontrolandsafespaces:It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.“at war for 1000′s of years”you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle easthere’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′sif you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′sIt’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.BLESS THIS POSTits crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests. ☕️☕️☕️the CIA took out the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1970s over oil and that set off an entire chain of events leading to ISIS, here’s more about multiple other countries we’ve fucked over That was the 1950′s. The Iranian Islamic Revolution was in the seventies. I’m sure that we could connect that to ISIS in the same way we could connect any happening in the Middle East to ISIS, but it would be simpler and more accurate to focus on the Sunni Middle East when looking at ISIS, rather than Iran.(Not disagreeing with the main point of the post, just correcting an inaccuracy. However, additionally, those photos are misleading. It’s true that the U.S. is very much to blame when it comes to Afghanistan’s state. But showing photographs of a tiny, wealthy, Western oriented minority that really only existed in a couple cities and passing it off to be representative of the people of Afghanistan at that time isn’t the way to discuss how the U.S. screwed up.) -- source link
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