What a ridiculous assertion. al Qa'ida wasn't a force in Libya until after Qaddafi fell.
Are you suggesting that CIA is in cahoots with al-Qaeda? Do you actually teach your students this garbage at @Northeastern? My goodness.https://twitter.com/maxabrahms/status/906507513805381632 …
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This guy is an international relations professor? That's terrifying.https://twitter.com/maxabrahms/status/906518483042799617 …
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Huh? Who disputes that point? Nusra, HTS, the ephemeral monicker in between etc.
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There's a difference between al Qa'ida proper and "affiliated" groups. Zawahri is a control freak.
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The HTS 'merger' aside, they also still largely operate in their original factions. Nusra and JS will split off as soon as it's convenient.
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Maybe but that's not relevant to your snarky Tweet that started this exchange.
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Snark aside, it's dangerous to oversimplify the quagmire that is Syria - groups are loosely allied, but all very different ideologically.
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Your issue at least originally was my calling Nusra and HTS "Al Qaeda types." Now you've gone all over the place in your arguments.
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Are you denying CIA-involved support for "rebels" helped Al Qaeda types in Libya and Syria?
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As an expert, you're clearly far too credentialed to be making these Chris Hedges level arguments.
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You don't think we worked alongside Al Qaeda types in Libya and Syria and that doing so has worked out terribly, really?
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Al Qa'ida wasn't in Libya until after Qaddafi. Libyans are responsible for their own country. If they want tribal wars, that's on them.
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We don't deserve any blame for the militia madness in Libya today? Not even a little??
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That's not what you said, Max. Red herrings won't work.
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Isn't it common knowledge that by funding Saudi Arabia/Gulf States, the spread of Wahhabism/Salafism is somewhat perpetuated by the West?
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No it isn't because it's total nonsense. How the hell do we "fund" Saudi Arabia?
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you dont consider these billions of dollars in arms deals as 'funding'?
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Maybe if you're talking about them Funding Lockheed and Boeing. B/c they pay for those arms. We don't give them away.
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but the West will happily take their money.. while we stand by as they spread their vilest manifestation/perversion/corruption of Islam
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That's quite different than "funding their government" and thus funding al Qa'ida.
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what if I had said 'supporting' their government instead of 'funding'? because we are probably in agreement, just using different words..
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