Thread: What Will It Take To Get Rid Of ISIS?

Originally Posted by tomcat

Originally Posted by Lancelot

Remember Tito and Yugoslavia?

...exactly, and more recently Saddam and Iraq, Mobarek and Egypt and Qaddhafi and Libya...looks like Assad of Syria gets a reprieve (thanks to a Russian strongman)...

Yeah Assad is a survivor, albeit with a much smaller chunk of Syria. Neo Cons were having wet dreams about "The Arab Spring" soon North Africa and the middle east were going to be pro US, democratic, capitalist countries loving KFC and Coca Cola.

How's that working now?

Originally Posted by Lancelot

Neo Cons were having wet dreams about "The Arab Spring" soon North Africa and the middle east were going to be pro US, democratic, capitalist countries loving KFC and Coca Cola.

How's that working now?

They still love their KFC and Coca Cola. The rest is a long way off.