What we got was the rise of xenophobic Islamic Jihadism fueled by barbarous tribal and clan warfare.
Let's look at the track record last year and this New Year.
The US encouraged Iranian dissidents and moderates to protest by not voting last June and look what we have- a "terpich fresser" (" carpet eater" in German- a term used to describe madman Hitler) in Tehran lunatic apocalyptic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brandishing his nuclear scimitar at Israel and the West and telling Bush and the EU to stuff it. Meanwhile Russia, China and even India are bought off by billion dollar trade and arms deals with Iran ensuring no UN security actions. Nary a glove is laid on Iran's patent "Judenhass" (German for Jewish hatred) on this UN's first Holocaust Memorial Day, Friday.
Also in June in Lebanon after four rounds of voting in the first, Hezbollah and allied parties win 35 seats out of 128 in the Lebanese parliament. Hezbollah literally announces takeover of all of South Lebanon and threatens the new government with secession. Iran pours in over $600 million in "assistance" to Hezbollah annually and Hezbollah earns another $600 million from telephone card monopolies and drug dealing producing a billion dollar plus war chest. Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets, artillery, munitions, arms and vehicles in those underground bunkers in the Bekaa Valley. Hezbollah begins actions against Northern Israel. Hezbollah now mans all of the guard posts-some directly overlooking Israel's northern road along the border with Lebanon. Opposition leaders in Lebanon are continually assassinated presumably by Syrian backed operatives.
August, Sharon and Olmert engineer the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza creating a mini-Hamastan and seeds of civil war between Fatah and Hamas. 9,000 Jews are displaced to live in caravan and hotel squalor inside the green line and upwards of 5,000 Arab jobs are destroyed along with $75 to $100 million from vegetable and herb export earnings from high tech greenhouses, since destroyed. Security for Israel is lost despite the move.
Tons of arms, weapons and millions of dollars pour into Gaza from al Qaeda and Iran-backed Islamic Jihad.
Then comes September and aging Egyptian dictator/ruler Mubarak now has 79 members of the Muslim Brotherhood sitting in his phony parliament and waging war against Coptic Christians. Copts account for 12 to 15 million out of Egypt's 80 million in population and they have five seats and all the women have another five. Sharia dhimmitude basically takes over. The Mubarak dynasty will never retain control in this decade.
In mid-November, Dr. Rice and entourage fly in on the weekend of November 12th to jam it to the Israelis to enter an unsigned agreement to open up the Rafah gap border with Egypt. Mayhem occurs as Hamas and al Qaeda pour in operatives, arms and munitions and the rain of Qassem rockets begins to fall on Northern Sinai and Ashkelon in Israel.
December 15th, elections occur in Iraq and the pre-dominate party elected is a Shia Islamists group, now in fractious negotiations with minority Sunnis which may blow up in the faces of the desperate US Ambassador, Afghan born Zalmay Khalilzad, Dr. Rice and President Bush. The Kurds are simply angling for justifiable regional autonomy. Meanwhile neighboring Iran trains and funds insurgents in the country to foment turmoil.
January 25th, Hamas-an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood wins an overwhelming majority of the Palestinian Legislative Council and violence erupts with disenfranchised Fatah gunmen in Gaza and the West Bank. Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in Damascus says the armed struggle against Israel will not cease.
All this in a Damascus, where we now learn from Saddam's former Air Force head where they took most of the WMD makings. A Damascus where diminutive Iran President Ahmadinejad and towering Syrian President Assad held a photo op and war council prior to the Palestinian Legislative Council vote. Doubtless they met secretly to cement terror funding with both Hamas and Hezbollah leaders for actions against Israel following the "surprise" Hamas win of last Wednesday.
What's the score so far in this "great game" in baseball argot: Jihad 7. Israel and the West zip!
The green flag of Jihadists Islam advances everywhere in the Middle East. The foolish western chimera (the mythological animal-half lion and half goat) of liberty and democracy for Muslim chimerlands in the Middle East is a failed delusion.
Olmert and the Kadimah leadership, Rice and Bush are like the Vichy French police chief portrayed by the late British film actor Claude Rains who spoke that fabled line in the Bogie movie, "Casablanca": "I'm shocked, shocked."
Looks like the beginning of Armageddon to me.