• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The Iran-Iraq War was also part of that pet conflict, and we certainly didn’t shy away from selling them weapons then.

    We’re currently playing up ISIS as “moderate rebels”, but it wasn’t all that long ago when the US and Iran coordinated to hunt down and destroy ISIS forces, as part of the Obama-Era normalization effort. Then there was a whole Saudi-Iran-Israel kumbayah that a number of Middle East Watchers were convinced would usher in a new era of diplomacy and relative peace. And then Oct 7th happened, and it all went to shit.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      The Iran-Iraq War was also part of that pet conflict, and we certainly didn’t shy away from selling them weapons then.

      Oh. I guess Israel is Special™. No American weapons going to Hamas that’s for sure.

      Then there was a whole Saudi-Iran-Israel kumbayah that a number of Middle East Watchers were convinced would usher in a new era of diplomacy and relative peace.

      Only at the cost of one genocide.