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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-clinton-and
The U.S. policy was a massive, horrific failure. Assad did not go, and was
not defeated. Russia came to his support. Iran came to his support. The
mercenaries sent in to overthrow him were themselves radical jihadists with
their own agendas. The chaos opened the way for the Islamic State, building
on disaffected Iraqi Army leaders (deposed by the US in 2003), on captured U
.S. weaponry, and on the considerable backing by Saudi funds. If the truth
were fully known, the multiple scandals involved would surely rival
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发帖数: 38600 | 2 Eric Smith · Burlington, Vermont
It's dismaying that the blowback from the 1953 CIA-assisted overthrow of
Mossadegh is still behind the instability of the Middle East, and that we
have continued to commit the same mistakes over and over. Can't we just get
rid of this agency?
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Bijan Sharifi
as an iranian-american (and veteran), i appreciate sen sanders bringing this
up in the debate.
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Eric Smith · Burlington, Vermont
Bijan Sharifi Indeed. The CIA repeated this stunt in Vietnam 10 years after
the Mossadegh mess and have been doing it at least once every decade since
then. In every case, it has been a failure. How supporting that nonsense is
seen as foreign policy experience, I'll never know.
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Challis Coulston · NOT CWC
Where's the profit in that? A lot could be done if the aim was really peace,
not least of all simply staying out of conflicts. If our leaders worked as
hard at keeping peace or staying out of conflicts as they do at finding
reasons to depose other countries' leaders, furnishing weapons and money for
war, or even invading countries, and instead used that money for domestic
programs or to pay down the national debt, we'd all be better off. All
except the MIC, and they have enough rich and powerful lobbyists to make
sure that doesn't happen. Everyone knows this but it is allowed to continue
as though it is an unchangable fact of life. Further, presidential
candidates, like Hillary, who go with the MIC flow are touted by the media
and establishment politicians for their valuable foreign policy experience.
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