Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Jun 24, 2014 at 15:04

First of all, let me get this "Turkish-Iranian" business out of the way. Ezekiel 38-39 says that Turkey (Magog) will be allied with Iran (Persia) for the purpose of attacking Israel. Seeing that the leaders of both countries hate Jews and Israel with a passion, it's ignoring the obvious to say this will not happen.

Secondly, it doesn't matter much, what is done under the table. The Saudis are funding Al Qaeda, and they are also opposing them. This happens from the royal family on down. High Turkish officials are also funding ISIS while others make pronouncements (not too loudly) against them. Officially, the government has sided with the jihadis in Syria and spoken against them in Mali, while Turkish embassies have been attacked by them in Somalia and Iraq.

Thirdly, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the various Jihadi groups, be they Sunni or Shia; and in the spirit, they are in lock step with "political" and "charitable" groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the PLO. All of these, in turn, scratch the backs of godless gangsters in Mexico, on all sides of that war, and Colombia, of Latin American revolutionaries, and of presumably Christian groups such as the "Lord's Resistance Army" in the Central African Republic and Pagan rebels in South Sudan. The money and drugs flow one way, the guns and bullets the other, all through the same channels.

If the reader wants some classifications to anchor on, the distinction between "Recognized governments" and "Antigovernment actors" might be useful.

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