Is this true? I thought America had nothing to do with the strong religious belief of Islamic world...
Yes, it is true. Many cities in middle east were like that. Beirut was another riviera, etc. Until US and friends started sticking their noses up everybody's asses.
America can't take credit for Afghanistan. Gotta hand that one off to the Ruskies and Pakis. The house was already trashed by the time America got to the party.
Now Iran...we'll take Iran. Sponsoring a mass murdering dictator in the Shah just because he could be "controlled", and shared western values (the nice shit, not the ideologies). His wife bathed in milk while their people starved to death by the hundreds of thousands. Yep, our bad on that one.
Another one we can credit to the Ruskies. Che' did his part, too. Cuba has a very interesting history, and being from Florida, have quite a few Cuban friends. None of who blame the U.S. for ills that befell Cuba. You can see Cuba on a clear day from Key West, and the Ruskies tried to plant nukes there at the height of the cold war. Not gonna happen, compadre. Fidel wasn't on the Nobel Peace prize list either.
For Afghanistan , let`s say that the US would not have armed the islamic mujahadeens to defeat the russians .... take it from there ...
The Mujahadeen didn't come around until well after there were several rebellions and a Muslim leader overthrew the king (this is how the OP's photo illustrates that change). The leadership of the Mujahadeen, which is now the Taliban, originally came out of Pakistan. The U.S. covertly funneled money through Pakistan to support the Mujahadeen not because they were allies, but because the U.S. was in a Cold War with Russia.
As I said in my previous post, Afghanistan was completely fucked well before the U.S., or Russia had any involvement. The U.S. could somewhat be blamed for the Taliban being in power, since they evolved from the Mujahadeen in which the U.S. supported. But to blame it solely on the U.S. is historically inaccurate.
Yes, it is true. Many cities in middle east were like that. Beirut was another riviera, etc. Until US and friends started sticking their noses up everybody's asses.
Look what the US did to Cuba.
Nice inverted reality you live in. What colour is the sky in your imaginary world?
Threads like this show why history is able to repeat itself over and over again. Humans have such a short term memory. 50 years is not history, 100 years is not history. Those are a blip on the map of time.
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Threads like this show why history is able to repeat itself over and over again. Humans have such a short term memory. 50 years is not history, 100 years is not history. Those are a blip on the map of time.
What's really amazing is that people haven't figured out that bombing people makes then turn to their god.
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