He is an anti-American marxist with strong religious underpinnings to Islam. Both the Bushes were not much better, and Clinton was too busy with Monica and defending the freedom of Moslems in Bosnia-Herzogovina to care. His administration put more pressure on Israel to cave in to unrealistic demands by Arafat than any other President besides Obama.
Reagan helped Sadaam against Iran because the Iranian Revolution declared war on the US and took our embassy people hostage. It was felt by the state department that allowing the two nations to fight each other would reduce the tensions in the area overall. Anyone with a brain could look at the way Iran is exporting all kinds of terror now and see that it worked.
Those who blew up the USS Cole had nothing done to them, as Clinton was a coward. Just as when they blew up the World Trade Center basement, he sent teams lawyers to the work, instead of rolling up his sleeves and punching back. Had he taken action, 9-11 never, ever would have happened. And had he not cut our intelligence agencies in half and allowed these guys to move about unnoticed and set up their shops, again, 9-11 would have never happened. Clinton was a pacifist coward that made us appear weak to our enemies, and as a result they grew stronger and un-afraid of us, then attacked us.
Thank the pacifist sissy Billy Bob Clinton for all this that has happened.
“weapons of mass destruction (WMD). That turned out to be untrue”
No it did not.
The pro-democracy forces lost in Egypt. Has anyone paid attention?
The military and Muslim Brotherhood were on the same side.
Rapid elections will leave no time for the pro-democracy groups to organize before the election. Guess who is already organized? MB and the military.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/world/middleeast/21egypt.html?_r=2&hp
“The failure to kill and capture Osama bin Laden”
Is that right. Who is this retard liberal masquerading as a conservative?
“...Obama is the worst President in the history of the Republic...”
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Obama is the worst President in history.
Obama is the worst President.
Obama is the worst.
When I grow up I want to be a wrighter. Anybody can due it.
I’m curious as to why the author left out Carter.
In my mind Carter lit the fire by mishandling Iran, and has fanned the flames ever since.
This is simple: exploit our own oil. All oil produced and used here is tax free on the profits. Problem solved.
Simple solution - Get our folks out of there, push the button and let God sort them out. (Think of it as rebooting the whole islamic mess.)
Well that's mighty big of you.
Oh, the Middle East is perfectly capable of messing itself up without any input from us. It seems the modus operandi of these type of diatribes is:
a) attribute to the U.S. an omnipotence which it doesn’t possess.
b) blame the U.S. for misusing it’s omnipotence.
Huh, I read this twice, no mention of Jimmah Carter.
Wonder why that is?
why is the biased corrupt media calling North Africa now the middle east too.
Just because they see no black people there does not mean it is not Africa.
Hell do these people actually know anything or are they covering for obama too much to actually understand where places are when he gets into a war while on vacation in Rio
Let's not let the fact that this is completely untrue stand in the way of making a point.
G. W. Bush’s biggest failure was his unwillingness to stand up against the tsunami of lies from the Rat party and the MSM.
“Why has every President since Lyndon Johnson been so utterly stupid when it comes to the Middle East?”
It’s not since Johnson. It’s since Roosevelt... and before that, the US was isolationist, so it had no Mideast policy. In short, it’s just the natural result of government. Government can’t do anything right.
Reagan and Bush I both had to deal with mid-east through the prism of the Cold War. This limited their actions: piss off an Arab regime too much and they could go pro-Soviet. Also, Reagan needed Saudi Arabia’s cooperation in lowering oil prices to “starve” the Soviet empire into defeat. The Saudis got a quid pro quo for that.
Another key priority for the US was avoiding another all-out Arab / Isreali war. All the presidents you cite have succeeded in that, so far.
Outside of Isreal, most people in the mid-east wish we were dead. We are enemies, not just of arab governments, but of the arab people. Short of waging genocide against them, there’s not much we can do except play for time, and hope they change changes their minds. It really is that simple and that depressing.
This author is retarded.
If one accepts the left/Islam’s reason for Middle East dysfunction [Israel’s existence], then the source of the problem is the British.
Or the Romans. Depends on how far you want to go back.
Regardless, even Ike f*cked it up by stopping Brit/French ops in the Suez.
Also, your grades are way, way too low. An “F” - seriously? You think what’s happening now is “Failure?” No - an “F” in the mid-east would be the US, USSR, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Isreal ALL launching nukes at each other.
That’s what REAL failure in the mid-east looks like.
If we blew up the Middle East, why is it still there?