“Each time we topple a secular dictator, I think we wind up with chaos and radical Islam seems to rise,” he said. He argued that any attempt to dethrone Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would lead to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, being “in charge of Damascus.”
Don't care for Rand's isolationist views, but he couldn't be more right on this. The Middle East is now even a bigger powder keg. Although every one in the World believed Saddam had WMD, and I supported Bush at the time, I now have second thoughts.
Maybe if Obama had insisted on a "forces of agreement" upon our pull out, things would have turned out better. And then if Obama hadn't bowed to every Muslim potentate and hadn't invaded Libya, things would be better there also. His obvious affiliation with all things Islam and his non-support for our Allies is also a reason why the ME is burning.
My bottome line: Thousands of our best dead and many more thousands maimed for what?. My only hope is now with the Saudi Arabi alliance against Iran, even though I despise the Saudis and their version of Islam. At least it keeps them all fighting each other. Also, never thought I would see so many Muslim nations consider aligning with Israel.
It's even worse than that. If you were to go back to 2003 and conjure up a course of action in the Middle East that would have laid the foundation for Iranian supremacy in the region, you couldn't come up with a more effective strategy to accomplish this than what the U.S. actually did over there.