Re: The Russians are coming.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 2:02 pm
Michael wrote:grzegorz wrote:I was curious Mike, you bought up Wahabis in Saudi can you tell me more?
I've always felt that the Saudis get a free pass from the U.S. on whatever they do, for example Yemen and the treatment of women and guest workers but I don't know much about the Wahabis.
I read in these articles that Wahabi is a sect of Islam promoted mostly in Saudi Arabia, whose members and ideology are exported, along with the takfir doctrine of condemning another Muslim as apostate. Apparently this combination of beliefs makes for ideal international jihadists, or religious zealot mercenaries whose core principles are not what most people call Islam, but their core principles are obvious in how ISIS behaves today.
USA foreign policy has taken advantage of this and used them and is still using them because although we are not treaty allies with Saudi Arabia, but we have common interests.
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Gates used the muhjahadeen to fight the USSR in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
This explains everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKkRDMil0bw
Fair enough but keep in mind that the Soviets killed more Afghans that NATO did which is something my Afghan friends always tells people.
In fact on Al Jazeera's Head to Head where they're grilling the former secretary of NATO the interviewer confronts a former Kremlin advisor who up until then seemed to be BFFs.
It is estimated that 850,000 to 1,500,000 Afghan civilians died during the Russian war.
I'll check out the video, thanks.