tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681148865964431927.post505894144071942219..comments2023-11-05T01:40:27.910-07:00Comments on FOGG OF WAR: Highlight: A Fractured Anti-American Islamist MovementAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399019375564825616noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681148865964431927.post-27569344871603059852011-10-30T18:35:27.755-07:002011-10-30T18:35:27.755-07:00That should be Sunni.Also, I'll note that Al-Q...That should be Sunni.Also, I'll note that Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group which has the re-establishment of the caliphate as a goal, should not be expected to be chummy with Iran. <br /><br />In fact, according to <a href="http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/mborouje/PDFs/Joint20Experts.pdf" rel="nofollow">Ambassador James F. Dobbins, Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Representative to the Afghan opposition in the wake of September 11, 2001 </a><br />Iran financially supported our invasion of Afghanistan. This is actually pretty mundane: they just kept paying the Northern Alliance fighters whom they'd been supporting in pre-9/11 Afghan civil war.armorsmith42https://www.blogger.com/profile/07278742409654932803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681148865964431927.post-60018872454754127722011-10-30T18:32:20.700-07:002011-10-30T18:32:20.700-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.armorsmith42https://www.blogger.com/profile/07278742409654932803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681148865964431927.post-13566870947622551222011-09-30T01:03:20.364-07:002011-09-30T01:03:20.364-07:00"To keep the Middle East broken up and fractu..."To keep the Middle East broken up and fractured..."<br /><br />Do you mean "to keep our enemies in the Middle East broken up..." ?<br />Or is it actually our strategy to promote societal division? I should think and hope it isn't, as that seems like it would mean we'll continue to have to keep watch on it.armorsmith42https://www.blogger.com/profile/07278742409654932803noreply@blogger.com