Fletch wrote:Wars in the Middle East have been about the west intervening and destabilising countries for their own US hegemony. The looting of resources, including gold holdings of the deposed leaders, and trying to balkanise the area for the benefit of Israel. The fighting is nothing to do with religion. Too many dicks on here believe the bullshit that it is.
It's mercenaries fighting wars for the west. paid, armed and supported by the west. US/UK/France especially. There's no shortage of dispossessed young angry men and women, and not so young ones too, who have seen their homes bombed, they're family and friends killed and maimed horribly by the west and their proxy forces. Hatred for the west comes about through what the west has done to their region, nothing to do with religion. Unless you want to say America and the rest of the west are radical Christian fundamentalists waging war in the name of Christianity?
Absolute poppycock!!! From the time of the Egyptian Empire the middles east was bathed in blood right through Roman times, the Islamic conquests of the entire region, Persians and Arabs killing one another, the rise and slaughter of millions by the Ottoman Empire etc etc etc.
I wish we'd stayed well away but the 1st World War got us embroiled in their murderous shit and discovering oil -which was then handed to the tent dwellers - has proven to be a proper pain the arse as we are expected by the peoples over there to get involved in all their shit.
I cannot wait until we no longer need oil and give them all a wide berth, but I guarantee they will not stop slaughtering each other.
And when we get involved we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. We cannot win with those people.