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2017-08-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Kissinger: End of Islamic State Could Lead To ‘Iranian Radical Empire'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-07 00:08|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 The 94-year-old former secretary of state has in the past warned that the Middle East will "explode" if the "domination of the region by an Iran that is both imperial and jihadist" is allowed to continue.

Is bombing Cambodia the answer ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-07 00:19|| 2017-08-07 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 kissinger is probably being paid by the saudis or the uae to write this

the end of isis does not mean the end of sunni terrorism (there is still al q)

Posted by lord garth 2017-08-07 00:43|| 2017-08-07 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 bombing nk is the answer

Posted by Daniel 2017-08-07 01:18|| 2017-08-07 01:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Archaic.
Society is permeated with activists and sleepers.
There are no land mass or paper treatys that will constrain them.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-07 01:22|| 2017-08-07 01:22|| Front Page Top

#5 When he's right, he's right.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-07 02:09|| 2017-08-07 02:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The Middle East will not explode. There will be peace at last.

What will explode is the globalists desire to control the Middle East. This must be prevented at all costs, even if it means continuous war for the next 100 years.

Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-08-07 02:19|| 2017-08-07 02:19|| Front Page Top

#7 The Middle East will not explode. There will be peace at last.

It will explode. Just needs the right trigger.

Posted by phil_b 2017-08-07 04:23|| 2017-08-07 04:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The Middle East will not explode. There will be peace ~~at last~~ in our time!

FIFY

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-07 07:44|| 2017-08-07 07:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't trust Henry. But I remain an advocate of disengagement with the Middle East. We don't go there and they don't come here. Sell 'em guns if they wanna fight each other but stay the hell out of it. The history of our meddling in that part of the world is not good.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-07 09:48|| 2017-08-07 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 a territorial belt reaching from Tehran to Beirut, which could mark the emergence of an Iranian radical empire.

IIRC this is the same "belt" which the Shiite Assassins controlled until the Mongols kicked butt and took names. More Shiite v. Sunni battles might be a good thing.

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-07 13:44|| 2017-08-07 13:44|| Front Page Top

#11 As if the region would suddenly be peaceful with Iran as the overlord. Let them conquer the area and pass the popcorn.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-07 14:19|| 2017-08-07 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 The region can be peaceful, rjschwarz.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-07 14:52|| 2017-08-07 14:52|| Front Page Top

#13 They need to put that dude back in his coffin nail it shut and bury it!

Posted by Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-08-07 17:01|| 2017-08-07 17:01|| Front Page Top

#14 If the Islamic State is destroyed, the situation in the Middle East could end up being even more dire with the emergence of an “Iranian radical empire”

There's been a Iranian radical empire in place since 1979. More recently, they were aided and abetted by our boy wonder, Obumble.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-07 18:36|| 2017-08-07 18:36|| Front Page Top

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