Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "What is Iran's 'Axis of Resistance’? | BBC News" video.

  1. Maybe invent time travel and DON’T invade Iraq in 2003?
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  2. Because the Ayatollah was smart enough to not mention just how BRUTAL his government would get until after the fact.
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  3. Geneva Convention applies to uniformed military. Hamas fighters hide among civilians and use them as human shields, which is also a war crime. (Though, attacking an area with known human shields is another war crime.)
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  4. Maybe Iran co-opted it in response. Since the Axis of Evil went well outside the Middle East.
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  5. Not much, the Iraqi government was angry about the airstrikes.
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  6. Sykes-Picot line? There’s a LOT of global problems caused by former colonizers deciding to draw arbitrary lines on maps, leaving people groups and cultures divided.
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  7.  @paul7TM  that was actually on the Brits looking to keep British Petroleum in Iran. They lied that Mossadegh was going to sell out to the communists.
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