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OftenBen · 3901 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thomas Friedman's Iraq op-ed in the Sunday Times: "we have no friends in this fight"
Good god damn do I hate this whole mess. I don't know if there is a good guy in these wars anymore. Normally with enough investigation I can figure out who I at least support ideologically, can't do it anymore. There is so much obfuscation and deliberate mis-information about who people are, and what they fight for, that it's damn near impossible to have an educated idea about all of this shit, let alone a possible solution.
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That's murky too, though, because the Turks are our allies. Turks and Kurds have been fighting for a long time, and they will continue to do so for a long time yet. Basically what's happening is that our chickens are coming home to roost. Or, if you believe Tony Blair and John McCain, it's all Obama's fault.