re: U.S. sending weapons directly to Kurdish forces, officials say

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Everybody is rooting for the Kurds, but how many times have we seen "unintended consequences" in the Middle East. It seems like pretty much every time. I guess I'm OK with limited involvement - and saving the women and children....but....this really is a complete clustercuss.

It almost make you yearn for the good ole' days of Saddam Hussein. He was the only one who could control the region...and that's exactly what it takes: a brutal dictator. That's the only thing that can hold it together.

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Hussein had actually dialed down his brutal dictator operations quite a bit by the time we invaded the 2nd time.

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Hussein had actually dialed down his brutal dictator operations quite a bit by the time we invaded the 2nd time.

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This is true. Do you ever wonder why? Do you think it may have had something to do with the fact that we no longer needed his services in regard to "doing the dirty" to Iran?

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I'm sure it's just coincidence

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It's not your fault. you are wired this way.

From Scientific American:

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University of Kent psychologists Michael J. Wood, Karen M. Douglas and Robbie M. Sutton in a paper entitled “Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories,” published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science this past January. The authors begin by defining a conspiracy theory as “a proposed plot by powerful people or organizations working together in secret to accomplish some (usually sinister) goal” that is “notoriously resistant to falsification … with new layers of conspiracy being added to rationalize each new piece of disconfirming evidence.” Once you believe that “one massive, sinister conspiracy could be successfully executed in near-perfect secrecy, [it] suggests that many such plots are possible.” With this cabalistic paradigm in place, conspiracies can become “the default explanation for any given event—a unitary, closed-off worldview in which beliefs come together in a mutually supportive network known as a monological belief system.”

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The authors begin by defining a conspiracy theory as “a proposed plot by powerful people or organizations working together in secret to accomplish some (usually sinister) goal”

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You mean like Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein plotting secretly in some cave somewhere to attack America on 9/11?

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Once you believe that “one massive, sinister conspiracy could be successfully executed in near-perfect secrecy, [it] suggests that many such plots are possible.”

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You mean like God, Jesus, religion, the political party system, etc. etc.?

Hey BONDS, thanks for the link man. It really provided some insight on how you people think.

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Wonderful. So when ISIS, or whatever they want to be called, uses their existing US made/supplied weapons to overrun the Kurds, they will have more US made/supplied weapons to use.

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And round and round we go.

If true the Turks are going to completely flip their shite. There would've been an independent Kurdistan years ago if Turkey wasn't a NATO member.

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Hey BONDS, thanks for the link man. It really provided some insight on how you people think.


Its science.....

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I'm just glad someone took the time to try and figure out how you lunatics think.

Thanks again for the link.

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Hussein had actually dialed down his brutal dictator operations quite a bit by the time we invaded the 2nd time.

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Well that changes everything.

Better than the alternative.

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Hussein had actually dialed down his brutal dictator operations quite a bit by the time we invaded the 2nd time.

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Nope