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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid anyone watch the PBS Frontline special on ISIS?
I did and thought it was a very good program. There is plenty of blame to go round from the Saudis to the Iraqis and the United States, but I thought that they did a judicious job of putting fault where it is due.
It also shows the terrible massacres that PM Maliki perpretrated against peacefully demonstrating Sunnis, which for some reason didnt get the level of coverage in the US that ISIS has received.
I strongly recommend that people watch it if they havent already:-
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rise-of-isis/
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Purges of Bathists and Sunnis from the Shia dominated government and military in Iraq was a recipe for disaster.
Of course this whole mess could've been avoided by not invading Iraq.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)When the Sunnis tried peacefully demonstrating for the democracy that we promised them, and got massacred for their trouble amidst the resounding silence of Western observers, then the rise of ISIS or someone like them was more or less a given.
A tragedy on so many levels.
arendt
(5,078 posts)the Saudis backed ISIS from the get go - nasty Wahabi whackjobs, one and all.
Of course no one on NPR would dare mention that our "allies" the Saudis are not our friends.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)they specifically referred to the Saudis giving out vast swathes of money and not being very particular about to whom they gave it.
I'm not sure why you think that NPR (PBS?) is a bastion of pro-Wahhabi sentiment.