Posted on 04/13/2018 12:10:00 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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In 2012, Wikileaks published private emails from the 42-year-old Brit showing she had splashed out $350,000 on 130 pieces of furniture when the bloody civil war had been raging for one year.
She also bought a pair of $7,000 shoes with crystal-encrusted heels and had the goods shipped to Dubai, to get around sanctions.
The murderous pair’s ultra-modern presidential mansion — commissioned in 1979 and designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange — is thought to have cost up to $1 billion.
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Didn’t approve of going in, and I think our funding and arming of “the good” (/s) al Qaeda, was the spark that exploded ISIS on the scene.
Once you’ve gone in, you have people who have telegraphed their support for you. When you just turn around and walk out, it leaves them hanging, and others out there who may be willing to help you in the future, realizing that wouldn’t be a good idea.
My efforts right now would be working with the Assad government and the rebels (whoever they actually were/are) to negotiate a settlement where each side could live with the situation in peace.
I don’t believe this civil war is helping anyone, and even if the rebels won, we don’t know for sure that another Islamic caliphate wouldn’t follow on there.
I agree but treachery is meat and drink to all sides over there. There are tribal and family feuds going back hundreds of years that flare up. I see no long term peace in that region.
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