“GWB did that”
Did he? Who attacked him? Not really Afghanistan, but I’ll let that one slide. What did Iraq have to do with it? Nothing, but we had a previous beef with them and could pretend they started it. Bush did what he already wanted to do, before, during, and after 9/11. It’s the same policy the neocons have pushed since they existed, and though it has a lot to do with “collective security,” balance of power, spreading “democracy,” promoting “American interests,” protecting our guys and containing the other guys, and the price of oil, but little or nothing to do with actual defense of the actual Republic. Certainly it had nothing to do with who or what attacked us and why.
We want to run the Mideast, and we thought propping up our guys in Iraq would help get us there. We want to do this for many reasons, tge least of which is to stop “terror.” There’s a far easier way to do that, but it would involve something we’ll never, ever do again: mind our own business.
I submit Bush-esque meddling in world affairs is the same sort of Big Government nonsense believed in by Obama, only instead of the U.S. economy its guinea pig is the chess board of power politics. Bush believes in Obama’s Big Government (see the ‘08 meltdown) and Obama in Bush’s (see Syria today and Libya yesterday), by the way. They just aren’t as gung ho. Anyway, our masters are as bad at running the Levant or Southeast Asia as they are the health insurance industry. In both cases it’s pure busibodyism. I
By one. I mean America.
America was attacked, and she went to war, lead by the CIC.
That is the correct response.
Whether or not there were other motivations at work, there is no way for me to know.
You might be right about Bush, you might not be. however my gut tells me our current president is engaged in a complete charade.