tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post4265980323250186921..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: While You Were All Distracted by Steve Bannon...MERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-38150931170527725742017-04-24T08:04:00.074+10:002017-04-24T08:04:00.074+10:00"Pence has compared 'radical Islam' t..."Pence has compared 'radical Islam' to the 'evil empire of the Soviet Union' and said that he and Trump will 'name the enemy' and 'marshal the resources of our nation and our allies to hunt them down and destroy them before they threaten us'."<br /><br />So in that case are we to expect the US to name as the enemy the most radical islamic regime (I am following the corporate media rule of labeling any government I don't like as a "regime") the Wahhabist regime in Saudi Arabia? And are we to expect them to support Assad's government in Syria in trying to combat radical islamists? <br /><br />Here is an article that points to the cluelessness of the US government in regards to Islam. <br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/15/isis-and-washingtons-ignorance-about-the-sunni-shia-divide/<br /> Grapplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967100340986309879noreply@blogger.com