“For two thousand years, our dearest brethren saw it all from Mosul: Romanized Greeks, Hellenized Persians, Hellenized Romans from all origins later called “Byzantines”, Armenians, Arabs from the desert with a religion of the sword, Egyptians, Crusaders, Mongols, Turks, French and British, “Independence”... Then the clumsiest Empire in history, an Empire unwanted by most voters, unwarranted by the Republic’s own Constitution, led by bellicose hawks motivated by God knows what, justifying their actions on untruths, arrived, upsetting a balance that was not the best, but was best of all possible outcomes. Two Vicars of Christ had cried their hearts out in vain warning of the grave danger of an intervention, of the, “extremisms that could stem from it.”
Would it surprise the writer that a little HISTORY is in order.
Did the writer ever heard of this date: September 11, 2001?
Would it surprise the writer that a little HISTORY is in order.
Correction: Would it surprise the writer that a little HISTORY LESSON is in order.
Sadly, since 9/11/01, the USA HAS NOT BEEN THE SAME.
Why Iraq?