It's really not true though the middle east was extremely westernized and very modern and progressive until the US decided it was time to overthrow the government they'd established

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Posted by GreatLakesTiger24

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Posted on 12/7/16 at 10:16 pm to Mir

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It's really not true though the middle east was extremely westernized and very modern and progressive until the US decided it was time to overthrow the government they'd established

... there it is

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Posted by jamboybarry

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Posted on 12/7/16 at 10:17 pm to Mir

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It's really not true though the middle east was extremely westernized and very modern and progressive until the US decided it was time to overthrow the government they'd established

Derp

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Posted by Bullfrog

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Posted on 12/7/16 at 10:20 pm to Mir

Nah. In 1958 or so, the sand people decided they could run the BP refineries and killed or ran off teh westerners. 18 months later they damn near begged the oil companies to return after they ran it into the ground as a pile of rust.

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Posted by Evolved Simian

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Posted on 12/7/16 at 10:49 pm to Mir

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extremely westernized and very modern and progressive

No, Iraq was none of those things. And Afghanistan had regressed twelve centuries after the war with Russia.

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Posted by G The Tiger Fan

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Posted on 12/8/16 at 12:01 am to Mir

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the middle east was extremely westernized and very modern and progressive until the US decided it was time to overthrow the government they'd established

I don't even know where to start with this one.