No fall of the Ottomans; no Saudi Arabia, no 9/11 funding, no extremist mosques being built worldwide, no ISIS.
That is where I am coming from.
False correlation. And omission of Iran from the equation, who is more responsible for 9/11 and ISIS (not solely, but more).
I have no agreement with Hitchens that Wilson’s delayed entry into WWI was in the USA’s own interest either; we should have been in as soon as the Lusitania went down, not two years afterward; and it was the Kaiser who sunk her.
As is usually the case when a county allies with another for strategic purposes, the long-term effect is contraindicative to the original intent. For example, the U.S. allied with Russia during WWII in order to defeat the Nazis. FDR then gave away the store, i.e., Eastern Europe, to Stalin and the end result was the U.S.S.R.
The U.S. went into Iraq to take out Saddam Hussein. In a sick way, Saddam kept a level of stability in the middle east, namely keeping Iran in check, and now 13 years after we went to war in Iraq, things in the middle east are far worse. Thousands of Americans have died for nothing but a hateful and evil group of people.
Things are worse now than ever.