Originally Posted by lost in melb.
Eh. I disagreed from the start with his appeasement. Just be nice to them and try to understand why they hate us? We can be friends with them? Bitch, please. The Arab Spring that he touted as proof of his world-citizen appeasement policies was a complete and utter disaster.
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
DemonGeminiX (01-04-2020), KevinD (01-05-2020), Teh One Who Knocks (01-04-2020)
So break its back, like you did with a Iraq. Ok, I understand you now...
Or perhaps I should ask, what level of engagement are you suggesting?
Scorched earth sounds about right to me.
On the other hand, none of us (1st world countries) should be involved in the middle east. It's been a shithole for thousands of years. Theres no wining there. Hearts and minds is a fallacy.
lost in melb. (01-06-2020), RBP (01-07-2020)
And now the Iraqi Parliament has voted to expel the US Troops stationed there after the drone strike.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
if there's one thing that unifies the middle East it is hatred of foreign interference
If we had left Saddam Hussein in place we would never be in this situation
DemonGeminiX (01-06-2020), lost in melb. (01-06-2020)
I don't think that's all there is to it. I think the Iraqis are scared that the Iranians might up their terrorist attacks in Iraq if they don't pull something like this. The Sunni Iraqis were dancing in the streets right after Soleimani was killed.
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Teh One Who Knocks (01-06-2020)
Daughter of slain Iranian general makes threat to families of American soldiers in Mideast
By David Aaro | Fox News
The daughter of slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani warned the families of U.S. soldiers deployed in the Middle East that they "will spend their days waiting for the death of their children" during the funeral Monday in Tehran.
While speaking to a vast crowd at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square, Soleimani's daughter, Zeinab, directly threatened an attack on the U.S. military in the region, following an increase in tensions between Tehran and Washington.
"Families of the American soldiers in western Asia have witnessed America's humiliation in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Yemen and Palestine wars, and will spend their days waiting for the death of their children," she said in Farsi, which was translated by the Associated Press.
During the funeral, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- who had a close relationship with Soleimani -- wept and prayed over his casket and the caskets of others killed during traditional Muslim prayers for the dead.
Esmail Ghaani, the general replacing Soleimani reportedly stood near Khamenei during the funeral. Iranian President Hassan Rouhbaani and other top leaders within the Islamic Republic were also in attendance.
Demonstrators unfurled red Shiite flags, which traditionally symbolize both the spilled blood of someone unjustly killed and a call for vengeance.
The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran’s famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him.
Soleimani will be buried in his hometown of Kerman.
The Associated Press contributed to the report
After Soleimani death, Colin Kaepernick decries US 'terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people'
By Sam Dorman | Fox News
Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick on Saturday accused the United States of targeting minorities "at home and abroad," just days after the administration ordered a drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
"There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism," he tweeted.
In a separate tweet, Kaepernick decried "American imperialism" and its "policing and plundering of the nonwhite world."
"America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad," he wrote. "America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the nonwhite world."
It's unclear what specifically Kaepernick was referring to, but his comments came amid left-leaning criticism of President Trump's decision to kill Soleimani, who led the elite Quds Force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); the U.S. government has long considered him a terrorist.
Kaepernick's agent did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
The ex-NFL player previously faced a wave of backlash after he claimed to protest systemic racism by kneeling during the National Anthem. On Thanksgiving, Kaepernick attended an "Unthanksgiving event" where he accused the United States of stealing "over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people."
Kaepernick had already faced immense criticism for previous comments, apparently pressuring NFL teams to avoid recruiting him.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seemed to quash any possibility of a Kaepernick comeback in December.
Speaking to reporters at the league’s winter meetings in Irving, Texas, Goodell addressed the scheduled Kaepernick workout for NFL teams in November -- an event that all but collapsed when Kaepernick decided at the last minute to relocate it away from the facility that he and league officials had initially agreed upon.
“This was about creating an opportunity. We created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, a credible opportunity,” Goodell said, according to Reuters, “and he chose not to take it. I understand that."
“We’ve moved on,” the commissioner added, suggesting that the league was finished considering Kaepernick for future workouts or team roster openings.
The next time Kaepernick leaves the country he should be put on the no fly list.
DemonGeminiX (01-06-2020), lost in melb. (01-06-2020), Muddy (01-06-2020)
By David Aaro | Fox News
Clearly an unpopular figure. I'm sure they'll let this one slip...
How does this pillow-biter coordinate a ball when he can't even coordinate a thought?
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