One of the problems we have is there is no indication that if we remove a Quadaffi, Mubarak or Assad that we will get anyone better. On the contrary maybe we get worse. The mid-east has always been quicksand for infidels with Islam always in the background ready to rear its ugly head just when it looks like peace might be around the corner.
Aren’t these ISIS monsters the same as the Brotherhood that Obama tried to install in Egypt? They used the same tactics on the people until the military had enough of their brutality. Now he acts like these guys are the enemy? They look more like the Arab spring’s fruit.
excellant summary.
we had one good chance in Iraq and the jerk blew it...I still can’t get over that one. The Liberal mantra of “Iraq was a mistake” is one that even the conservatives run, even on Freepr...Its ridiculous. We WON that war, and Obozo lost the peace.
I agree. If we’ve learned any lesson over the past two decades, it is let tyrants rule their own cesspools in Muslim lands, as democracy in those lands is all about giving the wild-eyed Muslims Sharia and therefore Islamic rule. Really, the dumbass Muslim people have no problem voting them in.
The big exception was Saddam Hussein, whose delusions of grandeur made him think he could take over OTHER countries and corner the oil market. He needed to be punished by us for that, and replaced with another tyrant, just one without his eye on his neighbors.
Didn’t Reagan teach that lesson to Qaddafi? Seems to me that after we killed his daughter and bombed his Air Force, he got very quiet until Lockerbee... We SHOULD have killed Qaddafi for that, IMHO. Still, when Dubya started taken out cesspools 2001 he retreated further. Seems we should have used the Qaddafi reaction as our templates for others.
It certainly is not too late to apply those lessons. However, we need a new president that understands what is being taught, and the current one and the cackling one that aspires for the job are NOT teachable.