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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFriedman 2005: Arm Shiites to fight Sunnites. Friedman 2015: Arm sunni ISIS to fight shiite Iran.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/18/thomas_friedman_asks_if_us_should_arm_isis_to_fix_problems_created_by_policies_he_supported/Excerpts:
"Now I despise ISIS as much as anyone, but let me just toss out a different question: Should we be arming ISIS? Or let me ask that differently: Why are we, for the third time since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran?"
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"I simply raise this question rhetorically because no one else is: Why is it in our interest to destroy the last Sunni bulwark to a total Iranian takeover of Iraq?"
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Friedman 2005: Arm Shiites to fight Sunnites. Friedman 2015: Arm sunni ISIS to fight shiite Iran. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Mar 2015
OP
Another corporate media hack pretending he knows more than fuck all about foreign affairs.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Another corporate media hack pretending he knows more than fuck all about foreign affairs.
When you have a media that disappears all history it is easy to be a political hypocrit.
Remember The Dixie Chicks!
JHB
(37,158 posts)2. He raises the question rhetorically because...
...he doesn't want the actual answer.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)3. But Tom! What about the next 3 to 6 months? Will they be critical?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. World's biggest wanker wanks nt