Once an ally, then an enemy, now a martyr
Interesting, no?
This sort of thing is not unusual, of course. The US allied with the Soviet Union in WWII, after all, and then engaged in decades of cold war once it was over. But from what I'm hearing, the ISIS problem is far from over, particularly since Trump precipitously and prematurely scrambled the decks in Syria and Iraq allowing it to reconstitute itself.
I guess we'll hope he got lucky on that one and that particular fever has broken. I wouldn't bet money on it.
Anyway, I'm sure the wingnuts will use that footage as evidence that Obama was a terrorist sympathizer or something, but they're doing that anyway.
What it illustrates is the complexity of all the changing relationships in the region --- and the fact that putting a reality star imbecile and 3rd rate tea party fanatics in charge probably isn't a good idea.
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