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It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.

“at war for 1000′s of years”

you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east

here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s

if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s

It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.

The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.

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its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.

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the CIA took out the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1970s over oil and that set off an entire chain of events leading to ISIS, here’s more about multiple other countries we’ve fucked over 

The United States: Fucking monsters.

[Image description: The original post is a tweet by Laura @ jaureguihug reading: “how countries like afghanistan were walking in front of us with like 5 athletes and we came out with 400″ and ending with an embarassed emoji.
Fatima @ fatimafiroz1 replies: “Maybe if the US didn’t bomb the country for the last 15 years there’d be more athletes, Laura.”

In their reblog, tumblr user @mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia includes a couple of dozen photographs of Afghans in their everyday lives, at university, at work, at weddings, in fashion shoots, showing that the country wasn’t too different from the US in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Also included is a photograph of an article in the liberal British newspaper The Independent from 1993 praising Osama Bin Laden for his role in fighting the Soviets with a massive amount of funding from the US. 
They end their reblog with a gif of DJ Khaled saying “congratultions, you played yourself”.]