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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer
Would these archaeological sites still be in existence if the US and UK had not launched an (illegal) invasion followed by an incompetent occupation? Hmmm
IMO the UK and the US are guilty of unnecessarily and (illegally) kick starting the chain of events which have now led to the eradication of a key part of world history.
If only the Brits, Frogs and German imperialists had been able to loot more than they did in the 19th century  |
Not good to introduce an argument with a rhetorical question ...
They might have been in existence ... or, there again they might have been sucked into an alternate universe by the Great Cosmic Muffin. Totally irrelevant thingy about 19th century Imperialism.
If you believe that the great Anglo-American cluster [deleted] in Iraq gave a boost to ISIS, you are probably correct. Anyone who believed in Iraqui WMD must have had a serious malfunction in his on-board bs deflector system. The invasion sent a clear message to muslim extremists ... and probably to the muslim world in general ... let's call it an Urbanesque message ... deus vult ... or, if not God, GWB.
But I would argue ... for fun and illumination
... that once the developed world develped a thirst for oil, ISIS, and all the other nutbar fraternities were inevitable. Maybe we could blame God, or a minor malfunction at the big bang, for putting all the oil in the middle of the asylum.
Has anyone else given any thought as to what an ISIS world would be like? Kinda makes an all-out nuclear war look not all that bad.