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Iraq
Origins Of Today’s Middle East Cauldron
2014-12-30
An historical discussion of the decisions by the French and British with regard to Iraq.
Posted by:BrerRabbit

#4  Every place the whiney assed libs and "world opinion" hounded a colonial power out of town, a festering mess has remained to this day.

Need I remind anyone of what a complete and utter catastrophe The Congo (Belgium), Angola (Portugal), and Zimbabwe/Rhodesia are???

Same goes for most of the middle east, we should have stayed a while longer.

Of course St. Art the Buchwald once said the big problem with the middle east is we sent all the princes to B-School in the Ivy League instead of tennis classes at Pepperdine.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-12-30 23:55  

#3  They've had plenty of time to get their act together since the British and the French left and they have failed to do so. Same thing with a lot of African countries. Enough time has long since passed so they can no longer blame the British, French, Belgians, Dutch or whomever. I remember when they just had to get rid of those nasty English colonists in Rhodesia. Even London abandoned the colonists. Now they have Zimbabwe. Hope they're satisfied.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2014-12-30 12:20  

#2  P2k, you mean Obama's and the left's Kumbaya approach to diplomacy is not working?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-30 08:25  

#1  ..and as long as they sat on them, the problem wasn't as bad as it is today. Then someone started to bitch and moan about colonialism and oppression. They're still oppressed (met the new boss, same as the old boss), dying in far greater numbers, hating and fighting, and the critics haven't offered anything near as stable as what passed before.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-12-30 07:58  

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