Right. So the decision is to use Pakistani platforms to bash Americans in general or people living in Western countries at every opportunity?
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Ethnic / political / nationalistic hate
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Propaganda
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Pakistan Defense Forum (PDF) allows you to provide Iranian perspective to global developments but this does not entail expressing hatred of the WEST that is visible in your every second post. You need to reflect on how you state your views for a change.
I have removed numerous posts from different threads in the Iranian Defense Section that I have found to be in violation of the Forum Rules. I have also prevented Pakistani and Turkish members from ganging up on Iranian members in the Iranian Defense Section during heated exchanges. Due to this decision, Turkish members dislike me to this day. This is the price I had to pay for my Moderation role here on PDF but I am thankful to PDF Administration for giving me the opportunity to serve as a part of its team.
The least I expect from Iranian members is to make productive contributions and not provoke more and more members in the manner you seem to in this thread and also in others.
PDF is very active forum and trolls are able to slip through the screening process from time-to-time. Mods also have a life outside PDF. I am preoccupied with personal work in this year. I will be more active next year.
Do not feed the trolls when they try to bait you.
China is mentioned in the content you chose to post in this thread. The Other Person (OP) alluded to Chinese acceptance of authoritarian regimes around the world in pursuit of Chinese interests while highlighting Chinese human rights track record in Xinjiang. This seems to be a critical view of Chinese foreign policy in relation to the topic.
Since WE allow members to question American foreign policy decisions, WE will allow members to question foreign policy decisions of other countries as well. All in absolute fairness.
I understand Chinese positions well enough on a personal level and my view about developments in Xinjiang is in
this post. Fair and balanced.
But I will NOT dictate other members about how to
perceive China in their posts.
I am NOT dictating you about how to
perceive United States (US) in your posts. I am simply telling you to be mindful of the Forum Rules in your posts. You violated two Forum Rules in this thread alone.
This is your problem? I have removed numerous posts of member
@jhungary as well.
What is your beef with
@Deino by the way? This member talks about Chinese technologies in his publications and operates a forum dedicated to Chinese Defense as well. This member is very China-friendly. Chinese government should be thanking this member for marketing Chinese technologies, let alone others.
Focus on yourself.
Who has bullied you in this forum from the team?
Respect Forum Rules and nobody will question you.
I focus on Facts and Figures and not on any country's political rhetoric.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the WEST does seem to have superiority over other countries in a large number of fields.
You have the right to state your views and criticize American foreign policy but try to be logical and less defensive in regards to who has what to say about Iran and its allies.
No country is perfect - many have skeletons in their respective closets.
US and Pakistan armed the so-called Mujahideen to challenge Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Osama Bin Laden is a former Mujahid who founded Al-Qaeda Network in 1988 and decided to challenge US in the Middle East on
ill-advised grounds. US has presence in the Middle East through bilateral relations with different countries in the Middle East. This is common sense.
If anything, Iran has benefited the most from American move to topple Saddam regime and reshape political landscape of Iraq in recent years. YOU should be thanking US for providing this level of service FREE OF COST - something Iran could not pull off in 8 years in a war with Iraq.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) was created by people who were part of Saddam regime in response to American De-Baathification program:
As the radical jihadist group marches through Iraq, it is quietly utilizing a network of former members of Sadaam Hussein's army to help militarize its fighting force.
www.pbs.org
Few in Washington appear to grasp that the fighters who led the takeover of Ramadi are an amalgam of virtually every Sunni tribal and jihadist insurgent group the United States has fought since April 2003.
theintercept.com
From military victories to surveillance, former Baathists are a powerful factor in the rise and control of Islamic state.
www.reuters.com
A large number of people had lost their jobs due to De-Baathification program:
The
ill-advised sectarianism of Nouri al-Maliki during his tenure as the Prime Minister (PM) of Iraq did not help:
In a severely turbulent political environment, a newly leaked set of audio recordings of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki insulting prominent leaders and inciting sectarian divisions threatens to destabilise Iraq even further.
www.newarab.com
Maliki, a Shia Muslim who was prime minister from 2006 to 2014, built a Shia-dominated sectarian state and refused to help Sunnis.
www.vox.com
Parliamentary report finds former PM and 35 officials responsible for army’s loss of city and says they should be tried.
www.aljazeera.com
Not long ago, stability and security in Iraq seemed possible. Maliki's corruption shattered any hope of that.
foreignpolicy.com
If you treat Iraqi Sunni like shit, what do you expect from them in return?
Syria also contributed to ISIL movement:
"Yes, I think extremism was there. It is in the region, not in Iraq. Don’t forget that extremism came from other countries. And these would-be suicide bombers came from all over the Arab world, and from almost over 100 countries, even some Western countries. And they were large numbers, and they managed to bring themselves in Syria, they did occupy quite large swaths of territory in Syria, and then they were able to cross into Iraq.
Now, the fault lines are this: Under these circumstances, you should win your population over. You shouldn’t push your population towards the other side. What happened because of political enmity, and political differences in the country, it was one against the other. So with the government, and the government has set an opposition, whether they are Shia or Sunni or Kurds. And these others, they were gathering against the government. By doing this, they were attracting people from all sorts of life, including terrorists, including those who resort to violence. And in that critical moment, the whole thing snapped. Terrorists, because they were able in Syria, they were being readied to cross the border to Iraq. And the atmosphere in Iraq was created that they will welcome these fighters in the country. And that was a major mistake by the government. And they could have done much better by winning over their own people, the Iraqi people, so that terrorists will not thrive into our own communities.
And that’s what happened. The whole state collapse, security forces collapse, whole divisions of the army collapse, and the terrorists took over. And of course, some people in these areas welcomed these terrorists under the assumption that these terrorists will save them from — I put it in brackets — the oppressive means of the Baghdad government, although it wasn’t oppressive as such. But people were not happy. So they thought this Daesh, and these tours will help them to take out what they think is their own."
Credit to Ex Iraqi PM Dr. Haider al-Abadi
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi joins Intercepted to discuss the U.S. government’s legacy after years of occupation.
theintercept.com
ISIL was too big for any regional power to tackle on its own. Iran-led forces such as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were fighting ISIL but were not up to the task of defeating an adversary of this size composed of former Iraqi military troops and volunteers from so many countries.
Americans under Obama administration bombed ISIL back to oblivion across Iraq and Syria in an attempt to defeat this movement. This fact might not be acknowledged in Iranian circles and PMF might pretend that bombing never happened in interviews but it was impossible to defeat ISIL without significant application of Air Power as pointed out in
here. US was the only country capable of striking across ISIL positions across Iraq and Syria from different directions on a regular basis.
Iraqi account of the war against ISIL for reference:
Different countries and regimes.
Blame-game is not helpful.
