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I'm going to have to see some more flesh on those bones, too. This is a curiously strong claim about bright-line causality in a very large, very messy series of
by _jal 8y ago
I'm going to have to see some more flesh on those bones, too. This is a curiously strong claim about bright-line causality in a very large, very messy series of events with many actors.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoThe leaks 'lit' the Arab Spring which had a lot of momentum, and ISIL is an artifact of the Arab Spring. Obviously conditions were there. The later is not in much dispute, the former just not more widely known. https://psmag.com/news/tunisian-activist-describes-mannings-leaks-helped-topple-dictator-65243 https://psmag.com/news/tunisian-activist-describes-mannings-... https://medium.com/@ifikra/chelsea-manning-and-the-arab-spring-1907fec77df1 https://medium.com/@ifikra/chelsea-manning-and-the-arab-spri... http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-leaks-inspire-arab-spring http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...
- dajohnson89 8y agoI thought that ISIL is more an artifact of the power vacuum brought about by the 2nd US invasion of Iraq. Admittedly, I'm not an expert in these matters, but wasn't the void in Iraq a factor in ISIS's uprising?