Full Lecture: From the Frontline: An Eyewitness Account from the Middle East
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Channel: Trinity College Dublin
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Length: 54min 6sec (3246 seconds)
Published: Fri Nov 11 2016
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"America, Britain, the Iraqi army, the Iraqi Shiite militias, the Iranian revolutionary guards, the Kurds, and the Turks are now besieging ISIS in Mosul, presumably as a prelude to fighting each other."
"American generals by in large prefer Hollywood to reality"
"Either way if they do fight and lose and are destroyed, they will of course no doubt create a new monster, even nastier than ISIS. That's what happens when you fight people instead of saying 'hold on a second, how did this happen?'"
"War basically is not about winning or losing, but about the total destruction of the human spirit."
"These Muslims, most of them are coming from the middle east ... it would have been a disaster for the west if those refugees had headed to the Islamic caliphate, had wanted to go to Mosul or even Saudi Arabia ... if they'd wanted to join ISIS, if they'd all been radicalized by what they'd gone through that would have been a disaster for the west, in fact it was a massive defeat for ISIS because they did not want to go to Raka or Mosul, they wanted to take the train to Germany, and we condemned them for it and said it was a flood of refugees who would change our society. There is a problem there, we totally misinterpreted history."
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