Just think about this:
Much of the entire mid-east mess we face today was precipitated by Sadaam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2 could have been avoided if back in 1990, April Glaspie, US Ambassador to Iraq had told Saddam Hussein that if he invaded Kuwait the USA would kick his butt back to Iraq, destroy his military, bomb Iraq back into the stone age, and eventually kill his sons, capture him, and execute him by hanging.
Instead she lead him to believe the USA would not intervene if he went ahead with the invasion with this position statement:
“We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.”
Much of the turmoil and violence of the past 25 years stems from the fallout over the invasion of Kuwaite.
How many hundreds of thousands (or millions) of lives were (and are being) lost, and how many billions (or trillions) of dollars have been spent because of her error in judgement in making such misleading remarks?
Yep...it is almost as if our path has been charted by idiots...