....and has it ever crossed your mind that they have watch American and western arms dealers arming their enemies? How do you think that looks to them as we then come in as their liberators? Shocking you say? We have been involved every little defacto skirmish in the middle east for years and years and years.
They trust us as far as they can dig up the relatives our guns have planted.
Again ..... for those just tuning in. I'm all for killing the bad guys. But for the most part, we Americans have not been paying attention to what previous administrations have been doing in the middle east.
They see us as playing both sides ....
In a culture that takes pride in keeping track who killed which of their relatives over the centuries ... that can be a real pain in the arse when trying to broker peace.
Talk about committed? We don't know that kind of commitment over here. We get over things too quickly...forgive our neighbors as we want to be forgiven.
To forgive over there is to spit on the memory of the dead.
Until Islam undergoes some sort of reformation, we are kidding ourselves if we think we can plant real honest to God secular democracy in Iraq.