Brilliantly, sadly observed

[Monte Davis]

This isn't as wrong as it could possibly be, but it's getting there. Keep
plugging.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> http://www.wrmea.org/1989-april/the-shatt-al-arab-obstacle-to-iran-iraq-peace.html
> >
>
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