Things are JUST STARTING, Greg. This has decades to play out.
Learn the history first before you make that claim. It has been going on for decades, not just starting out. It has formed to include us when we became a part of the UN and made decisions that forced one country into accepting another's needs or demands.
Iran was the primary supplier to the insurgents. They provided the training in and supplies for, the making of the IED's used there.
Yes and?
If we are not there, then we don't have to worry about it, right?
Training isn't an issue, it seems they are smart enough to use that Internet thing and look it up.
The vast majority of the insurgents captured there were Iranian along with a large contingent of Saudi's and other assorted middle eastern and radical Europeans.
Don't forget the radical Americans, like those in them churches who say we are d*mned for allowing gays in the military, or don't they count?
It doesn't matter because since the 1860's we have had to deal with radical people.
The explosives used were mainly of Russian and/or Chinese manufacture along with a smattering of components from other sources.
Well guess what?
If one wants to get explosives, it is rather easy to do if one is determined. I just read an interesting piece of fiction about some brits who were planning on bomboing some place in London or something like that and they made their own explosives. The problem is that one of them blew themselves up. It is based on a true story and the writer was one member who detailed who made what and how it was all done.
BUT guess what?
It is possible, very possible if one is determined.
The Chinese and Russian (let alone the Germans, French and others who deal in arms - oh that includes us) don't really care who they sell to and if we are really concern, we first need to deal with the issues here, because they are more important than Iran or NK or even China.
