“They say, ‘We hate you because you are occupiers’ ” he said, “ ‘but we hate Al Qaeda worse, and we hate the Persians even more.’ ” Sunni militants refer to Iraq’s Shiites as Persians, a reference to the strong links between Iraqi Shiites and the Shiites who predominate in Iran.
Didn't the U.S. give arms to the Taliban, or what became the Taliban, to drive the Soviets out of Afgahnistan? Didn't this come to bite us in the a$$ decades later. It's nice to know that we're clearly not laying the groundwork for a well armed civil war.
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