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kleinbl00  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UN High Commissioner on Human Rights: "A textbook example of ethnic cleansing"

If you look at it with dry eyes, the US involvement in Vietnam created a decades-long "problem" for China, while our involvement in the Middle East created a decades-long "problem" for Europe.

From a "great game" standpoint, kicking over an anthill next to the picnic blankets of the other two world powers is certainly a strategy.

For that matter, everybody letting a half million Muslims spill into Bangladesh is kinda like watching the fire ants run around before India spreads their blanket.