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[quote=Anonymous]"And we got what we deserved."

If citizens of countries that cynically advance their own interests all deserve to be murdered, then pretty much most humans deserve to be murdered.

"Just look at the history of US involvement in the Middle East. All those countries are artificial. We created those countries like plastic after the fall of the Ottoman Empire."

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was between Britain and France.

" And the only way to rule a plastic country is with a dictator. Assad, Hussein, the Shah—we propped them all up."

Iran was not created by Sykes-Picot, but had pretty much the same boundaries before and after WW1.   Jordan was created by Sykes-Picot, but while it is a monarchy, it is not a dictatorship like those above.  As for Iraq and Syria, it is not clear there is any way to draw the boundaries that does not create issues of ethnic and religious minorities.

And we really never propped up the Assads.  We gave minor support, for a short time, to Saddam.   While we are not proud of our support for the Shah, fact is it was the cold war, we were worried about the USSR (I am speaking to our later support for him, not the 1954 coup)

It is right to support greater justice, even when it leads you to making judgement about things that happened generations ago, and things that are complex (and about which you may happen to be misinformed)  Justifying intentional murder based on such past acts, seems to me to be unwise. [/quote]

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