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2016-07-23 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-23 02:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sykes-Picot wrongs do not become rights just because the Middle East made many wrongs later.

Posted by BernardZ 2016-07-23 03:01|| 2016-07-23 03:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Still, on the positive side, think about how many Moslems all the Moslems have killed. And likely will go on killing. But then would the Moslems have done all that anyway?

Moslems seem to enjoy killing other Moslems, bombs in crowds, that sort of thing. Then use a fire hose to wash it all down the gutters and drains and plan to do it again in a week or so.
And ( besides ) the MS Media make a few bucks on the deal.

And it has been going on for how long, no end in sight , really.
Just Moslems killing Moslems. The religion of Peace, don'tcha know.Makes Sykes/Picot seem almost irrelevant and trivial, somehow. Much much too late to repeal or change now .

Gives new meaning to the term: " Insh'allah ", don't you think ?

Posted by Shiting Thud8806 2016-07-23 07:46|| 2016-07-23 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Any fundamental difference between the division of the ME after WWI and the American/Soviet divide of Europe after WWII? We sat on them and they've had the longest period of peace in Central Europe since the Romans. The long glace back in time - WWII, WWI, the Balkan Wars, The Wars of German Unification, 1848, The Napoleonic Wars, The Seven Years War, The War of Spanish Succession, The Anglo-Dutch Wars, The Thirty Years War (with an aside of the English Civil War), the Wars of Religion, etc, etc, etc.

Sometimes, what you thought was bad (ie colonialism), may have been the better of bad choices. How many would be alive today and how prosperous the general population would be if the course taken hadn't been?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-23 08:54|| 2016-07-23 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 G(r)om #2 is the famed inland swimmer AKA Hemmingay. See the difference between #2 and Mind Control Man?

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-23 09:38|| 2016-07-23 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 How many would be alive today and how prosperous the general population would be if the course taken hadn't been?

Or: If we hadn't pressed technology and disruptive culture onto primitive closed societies, ...

Posted by Skidmark 2016-07-23 10:54|| 2016-07-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 If Sykes Picot has any fault then Europe will be perpetually at war.

Posted by Tarzan Slailet2796 2016-07-23 11:28|| 2016-07-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Sykes-Picot divided up all the Ottoman eyalets into unsustainable mini-states all at war with each themselves and other. For a century. And they still are. What a win.

After WWII we should have doubled down and split up Germany, Japan, and China into multiple states.

Well two out of three ain't bad.

Posted by F105wNapalm 2016-07-23 18:55|| 2016-07-23 18:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and the sub-continent.

Three out of four ain't bad either.

Posted by F105wNapalm 2016-07-23 19:19|| 2016-07-23 19:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Where's Meatloaf when you need him?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-07-23 19:55|| 2016-07-23 19:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Meatloaf? Again?

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-23 21:00|| 2016-07-23 21:00|| Front Page Top

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