It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.
“at war for 1000′s of years”
you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east
here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s
if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s
It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.
The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.
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its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.
Another thing that gets “conveniently” forgotten is that the Reagan administration literally provided arms to jihadist groups (called the Mujahadin back then). In an attempt to force the Marxist-led regime out of Afghanistan, Reagan specifically chose the Mujahadin over less ideologically extreme groups, portraying them as sympathetic freedom fighters and religious heroes. All in all, the USA provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to these revolutionary groups - if you want to learn more about it, look up Operation Cyclone. These rebel groups attacked civilian cities with American-supplied arms, much of which came from American funding to Pakistan. Some of them would later form the Taliban, and (though this is highly debated) Operation Cyclone likely contributed to the rise of the Taliban and the eventual attacks that happened on September 11th, 2001. So…yeah. We literally helped create the instability in the region, and then when we couldn’t control it, we declared war instead. Hey @skogsnufa, you can add this to my list of reasons I hate Reagan…hahaha.
