Brilliantly, sadly observed

[Joseph Tracy]

We supplied weapons, advisors and as the global superpower fully endorsed it. If we had not done so it is highly doubtful that Saddam would have started it.  


> On Nov 30, 2015, at 7:14 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What US policies in particular led to the creation of ISIS?  1)we ok’d the idea of seizing land through war by provoking and helping the Iraqi war on Iran
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> We ok'd it?  How about the fact that the two nations were generally hostile toward one another for a long time. How about Islam? The Bath party was rightfully fearful that Khomeini would stir up rebellion in southern Iraq. How about territorial disputes, especially the conflict over the Shatt al-'Arab River.
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> The dispute over the Shatt Al-Arab waterway threatens once more to derail the peace talks between Iraq and Iran, and could ultimately end the truce between the two countries. However, as this historical account shows, the controversy involving this shallow, 127-mile-long strategic waterway has been the subject of treaties signed in 1843, 1937, and 1975, and continues to loom as an intractable problem.
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> http://www.wrmea.org/1989-april/the-shatt-al-arab-obstacle-to-iran-iraq-peace.html
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