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There was discontent and unrest, for various reasons, but the war began when billions worth of weapons and ammunition were poured in. And so-called “advisors”.
by rainworld 3y ago
There was discontent and unrest, for various reasons, but the war began when billions worth of weapons and ammunition were poured in. And so-called “advisors”. First covertly then overtly.
- ImHereToVote 3y agoFreedom guns. So free they even made Al Qaeda rebrand themselves. Like a freedom loving corporation.
- lyu07282 3y agoIts always awkward when the treasury department needs to reshuffle their terrorist organization designations because the same organization is getting bombed in one country and gets a shipment of money, guns and explosives in another. Gets especially surreal when you got members of the group in gitmo, I guess you just hand them some weapons crate on their way out the door. Maybe the CIA can start to issue work visas for terrorists. Perhaps terrorists should just name themselves after whatever the state department is calling them, seems to work fine for the wikipedia.
- aredox 3y ago"were poured in" "Nice" use of the passive form. Do you think there weren't any weapons before? Or that advisors were needed to start an insurrection? Google "1982 Hama massacre" le "Alois Brunner".
- whimsicalism 3y agoThe scale of the Syrian civil war would not have been possible without substantial foreign assistance at the onset. You can look at reports of weapons seizures along the Iraq/Syria border in the lead up to the conflict.
- kingofpandora 3y agoThere is anothing wrong with using the passive voice.