Posted on 09/27/2014 10:01:48 AM PDT by rktman
You are exactly right on all counts.
Now that would be a smart strategy. But nooooooo...
we want to create “DEMOCRACY” in the Muslim countries of middle-east. And then we end up taking sides, such anointing a Shia head of state in Iraq. He then went on to remove all Sunni chiefs from government and military. Can you blame the Sunni ISIS to be pissed off at us?
One would think the police would retaliate and wipe them out of their cities. Unless, of course, they are one and the same and found it an easy way to rid themselves of a few unwanted wives and daughters.
My dad told me how the Winter Hill gang, the Irish Mafia of Boston and the Italian Mafia were having a war in Boston back in the early 60’s. He told me how they had one killing a night.
Then for some reason the police stepped in and stopped it. He always wondered why they didn’t just sit on the sidelines and help the street crews clean up the carnage the following morning.
I wonder the same thing, why don’t we just sit on the sidelines and wait to see who the last muslim left standing is. And then arrest him, try him for murder, and hang him. End of problem and not a US serviceman killed o0r hurt.
While I generally agree with you premise about repeating, I don’t think we can look to the past and ignore what is shaping up now.
I was against the Muslim Brotherhood attempt to accomplish this, and I am against the ISIS pursuit of it also. Allowing one large Islamic state to become a reality is a very bad idea.
“We ought to be supplying both sides with ammo and weapons and standing n the side yelling encouragement to both sides.”
The two major forces, Al Qaeda(Sunni) and Hezbollah (Shite), are structured and well funded, so they needed to be destabilized. Enter ISIS, the Al Qaeda on crack, likely initiated and funded by the CIA, at least at the beginning, to destabilize the Sunni forces and directly confront the Shites.
At some point, that experiment went a bit out of hand, although, judging by the actions of senior congresscritters with access to information, they still want to continue funding them. We have not reached the equilibrium yet, so brace for more Muslime-on-Muslime religious purification.
Middle Eastern countries have to achieve organic equilibrium, like Egypt did. A destabilized Syria is not too bad either, because it will further weaken both Hezbollah(Shite Iran) and “moderate”(lying) Sunnies. Actually, one of my guilty pleasure, sorry to say, is to watch the whole damn region BURN.
I would even go along with the role we used play post WWII as world policeman. But United States was the true lone superpower then. We were the worlds largest lenders. Our manufacturing never saw a bomb, while other industrial giants of the time had their factories bombed into rubble.
People need to open their eyes and minds and look at our country’s finances today. Every American man, woman & child now owes $60,000 to the national debt. Which amounts to $18 Trillion national debt. Then add future obligations to Medicare, Social Security and Obamacare already passed on law books. That adds up to another $90-100 Trillion.
By any standards of accounting we are bankrupt and getting worse every minute. We can NO LONGER AFFORD to play world policeman with borrowed money. Has America been really dumbed down so much they can’t see even the hand writing on the wall?
Go back to post WWII period. Our only role in the middle-east was via oil companies to extract oil. There were no American soldiers fighting Muslims. And the Muslims loved Americans because they brought them wealth. There was no ISIS and no 911.
Then one day we decided to depose Shah of Iran. That was the beginning of middle-east turmoil. Mullah’s took over Iran and proclaimed it an Islamic republic. That awakened Jihadi’s everywhere. If Iran could do it, so could they.
Shia and Sunni have fought for 1400 years. If we think we can bring peace and democracy to that region through military force, our nation needs help from all psychiatrists in the world.
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