The thing that kept the lid on things in the
mid-east for so many years, was the fact that most of the countries there were
ruled by a King or Dictator or whatever you wish to call them. Most of these countries were NOT under an
Islamic government, and most had a powerful military to discourage an invasion.
Keep in mind that the
ultimate goal of Muslims is world wide domination. They seriously want to rule the world. The first non-Islamic country to fall was Iran. This was
during the Carter administration, and he did nothing to help the Shah remain in
control. It then became an Islamic
republic under the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The second problem to arise
in the Middle East was when the dictator of Iraq became hungry for more power and more oil money. His solution was to invade Kuwait; a small country which had a LOT
of oil but no military. This was when
George HW Bush was President, and the United States intervened to stop the invasion and drive the Iraq forces out of Kuwait. Once that
was accomplished we ceased all military action against Iraq.
The third problem, in my
opinion, was the election of Bill Clinton as President. He used the Middle East to divert media attention away from all his many scandals. If the news of the day was one of his
scandals, a simple solution was to bomb something in the Middle East, like an aspirin factory for example.
When Clinton was elected, we basically had two enemies in the Middle East; Iran and Iraq. By the end of
Clinton’s eight years of blundering, I doubt that we had a
single friend left over there, except perhaps Israel.
On September 11,
2001, at 8:45 a.m. just eight months after George Bush became President,
Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations attacked the World Trade Center. Reportedly,
they were financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist
organization. It was the popular assumption that they were
acting in retaliation for America’s support of Israel, our involvement in the Persian Gulf War.
This attack had been in the
planning stage for at least three or four years because some of the terrorists
had lived in the United States for several years, and had been taking flying lessons
at American commercial flight schools.
Bush responded to this attack
by launching
the War on
Terror, an international military campaign which included the war in Afghanistan, launched in 2001 and the war in Iraq, launched in 2003.
At the conclusion of the war in Iraq, President Bush left an ample number of troops there
to keep the piece until Iraq had a strong enough Government and strong enough
Military to do so.
In January of 2009 the
disaster of all disasters happened. A
Muslim by the name of Barack Hussein
Obama II became President of The United States. Obama knew Many Americans were tired of the
war, and one of his campaign promises was “As a candidate for president,
I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end,”
In
his book, former Defense
Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta suggests that President Obama
failed to heed his advisers who wanted to leave troops in Iraq past December
2011, which may have contributed to the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS).
This was going to be a very
long post pointing out the fact that most if not all of the turmoil in the world
today is a direct result of American Foreign Policy. However, I just discovered a recent column by
Pat Buchanan which sums it up very nicely.
Here is the link…Please read: http://buchanan.org/blog/the-mind-of-mr-putin-124130
Here are Examples of America’s Current Foreign Policy…
