If we were serious about stopping ISIS, we'd cut all ties with Saudi Arabia and Turkey. In fact we'd probably have to start bombing them.
Forgetting the syrian/iranian part of ISIS creation?
Saudi supported "anti assad" forces.
Syria/Iran are Shiites, they are the ones that ISIS ultimately want destroyed and replaced with proper hardcore Sunni.
Iran and Syria Gave Birth to ISIS? : SAPRAC and The German-Saudi Alliance | The Huffington Post
A lame ass Huffpuff piece spewing Saudi Sunni propaganda is hardly proof that Iran is behind a Sunni revolution to overthrow Iran and Syria....
No doubt many sunni would like to see the demize of shite, long history of hate between them both religious and political. They have also lived side by side for long periods around the world without problem.
Assad did not spend most of his energies fighting ISIS but killing his own people. He never treated ISIS as the real threat without the west intervention over his criminal and because of ISIS very visible and attention getting horrific murders, massacres and terror. Magic trick, the west was looking other there while the real action was happening elsewhere. Syria and Russia have killed far more than ISIS, including terrorism and wars around the world. Everyone screams ISIS and dismisses the other brutality and horrors happening or other terrorism.
Both assad and erdogan have profited from ISIS. Iran used them to make themselves seem more appealing to the west, more moderate and more cooperative.
It's a typical game, but it seems too many in the west do not think beyond checkers or in some cases tiddly winks
While everyone is focused on ISIS, Assad keeps Syria and Iran gains an nuclear agreement and the dropping of sanctions from Obama, Russia and Turkey gain their oil pipelines and the world blame saudi for sunni islam as the foundation of ISIS, dropping them from the list of major players they had become.
and you lapped it up without seeing that the US and the world was being played. Seriously I think people can be so blind at times. Tragic
I'm far from a fan of Huff but their writers are not wrong all the time
I've lived through the bloodbaths by both side, and seen the best side of "peaceful" islam, I know many find that hard to accept reading the news of the last few decades. Any faith can be abused and corrupted and most have a one time or another.
Yes, most of the west hates aspect of wahhabism, but that is a small part of sunni islam. There are aspects of shite that are as bad and can be even worse. It is not the religion so much as the culture of the east that is clashing with the west. They see the west as invaders and in some cases with good reason.
Even Islam itself was a reactions to the overwhelming of other gods, cultures, empires and ideas, making arabs feel like low man on the totem pole with little pride in themselves.
ISIS is a tool, a brutal, blood tool, but just a tool being used by others against the west. Iraq and syria was a convenience for them to be based. Iran was the big winner...............and terrorism has spread
