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> Your explanation of Syria is similarly without rational basis. ISIS was not created by the Arab Spring. It was directly created by catastrophically stupid mil
by echo_nevada1 9y ago
> Your explanation of Syria is similarly without rational basis. ISIS was not created by the Arab Spring. It was directly created by catastrophically stupid military actions taken by USA next door in Iraq.
Your rationale is as ignorant as the person you are replying to. The Arab Spring, which resulted in the rise of Syrian & Libyan revolutionaries, was absolutely a major factor in the rise of ISIS.
To suggest that it was exclusively one or the other is ridiculous.
- jessaustin 9y agoWithout guns, "revolutionaries" are just political opponents. Which certainly existed in Syria prior to Arab Spring. USA provided the guns that made these into "freedom fighters" (an ambiguous phrase if ever there were), apparently under an "it worked so well in Afghanistan in the 1980s" rationale.