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A news source re Rand Paul questioning Clinton about gun running.

Posted: Jan 27, 2013

Posting for information purposes since liberals are saying it is conspiratory theory and Clinton played dumb when asked the question.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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Meant to say conspiracy theory :) - nm

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America doesn't run guns - Fanatical Hypocrite

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That's for arms dealers. We're "gun exporters." Same thing, but bigger. I doubt there's a country in the Middle East, Africa, or South or Central America that doesn't have American guns all over it. The Taliban and Saddam Hussein were our babies. They grow up so fast. One day, when we're at war with Syria because the rebels overthrew their corrupt dictatorship and installed a corrupt dictatorship, news reporters will be lamenting the fact that if only we could have seen the future we would know that it was a bad idea to arm them.

I'm getting tired of America's foreign policy optimism. The Libyan insurrection, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, the Nicaraguan contra affair, Noriega and Panama, Vietnam, Korea, the Arab Spring, etc. Each time someone has a civil war or revolution, we think this is our chance to get them to like us. We have flashbacks to our own Revolution and see them waving the flag of democracy and joining us in freedom. And every time we turn out to be delusional. We successfully lost Vietnam, we've built a new Iraq out of paper and barely veiled racism, for billions upon billions of dollars we helped the Afghans move their rubble piles around (all the while lecturing them about growing opium while continuing to be one of the largest opium importers in the world), North Korea still exists.

How do we not see these quagmires coming at this point? Our Revolution was successful because at that point the British had become a foreign power in the colonies. We were geographically isolated by an ocean and slow boats and we had developed our own culture and customs. It was our land and they were managing it poorly. We essentially rebelled against a foreign power on our shores. Even then, it was a bloody mess. But when the dispute is entirely political, social or racial, the in-fighting never ends. The enemy can't pack up and go home. It's their country too.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us over fifty times in 60 years and frankly it's a pathology.

As for Hillary, I doubt she knows much about it and if she does, she obviously can't tell us. I remain unconvinced the CIA knows which regimes its fighting or backing at any given point.

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