Because of the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who died because of Bush's evils,
George Bush is touring the Mideast warning the world that Iran is still dangerous.
Why the U.S. President Lacks Credibility in Mideast ?, not because of his [evil plans]
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Retired General William Odom calls Iraq ‘the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.’
Senator Chuck Hagel (who voted for the war) is somewhat more cautious; he terms Iraq ‘the most
dangerous foreign-policy blunder in this country since Vietnam’” (Victor Davis Hanson, Claremont
Review of Books, Winter 2007/08).
yes I agree, past history of our leaders have made [blunders], but we can not blame every thing on
one person, who has caused all are present ills, unless it is satan where talking about. And Yes
the apparent cause of this war and of much of what has followed leading to the present difficulties
in the Middle East was in fact a foreign-policy blunder by the United States made in the mid-20th
century. The eventual outcome of that error will pale into any real significance the war that began
on Jan. 16, 1991, the effects of which continue to ripple on at massive expense to the American
nation years later.
-other foreign-policy blunders, leading up-to this event
In 1947, India, the “jewel in Britain’s crown,” became a nation
independent from the British Commonwealth and Empire.
In 1948, the 11-month siege of Berlin by the Soviet Union had the attention of the world
riveted on the escalation of tension between the Western allies and the Soviet Union.
In 1950, Asia became the focus, as the Korean War ravaged
the Korean peninsula for the ensuing three years.
In 1954,the seeds of an even worse war in Vietnam were sown as France’s Asian colonies
collapsed into disorder in Indo-China and the U.S. later began aiding the South against N. V.
In 1955, the Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and other socialist states, beginning a 35
-year standoff between the nato alliance and the Warsaw Pact nations. In 1955, the Alabama bus
boycott triggered great social disruption between black and white in America.
At this point, the U.S. was well and truly engaged—its military strength shoring up the West in Europe,
training the South Vietnamese Army in Asia, still deployed in strength in Japan and the Philippines,
and its National Guard beginning to be rolled out to contain racial disruption at home.
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Then on July 26, 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, the vital choke point through
which much of Middle Eastern oil transits to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Israel, Britain
and France invaded Egypt in response. The ussr threatened to intervene on the side of the Egyptians.
President Eisenhower threatened a nuclear response if it did. But Eisenhower was an anti-imperialist,
intent on seeing Britain, the last of the great colonial powers, divest itself of its empire.
Instead of backing his British, French and Israeli allies, Eisenhower forced a cease-fire upon them,
thereby yielding up control of the world’s most vital sea gate to a declared enemy of the West and
ensuring the escalation of tensions in the Middle East for decades to come.
Ever since, the Middle East has become a theater of escalating conflict, embroiling the U.S. in
continuing aggressive and, most often, misguided diplomacy to this very day.
One has to wonder, if America had backed its allies at that crucial moment in history when Suez was
up for grabs, would the U.S. and Britain be involved in Iraq, let alone in Afghanistan, and worrying
about the intentions of Iran and Syria today? Would Israel have had to fight a war in 1967 and
again in 1973 in order to survive as a nation?
[QUOTE
The New Testament commands that you be at peace with all men.
All means ALL with no exceptions.
[/QUOTE]
Does this apply only to us, or other nations also? The bible clearly also says kingdoms
will fight againest kingdoms , nation againest nation but that was not to be the end..
Would the U.S. have reneged on its commitment as an ally of the shah of Persia and let him be
deposed, thus sowing the seeds for the rise of a nuclear-powered Iran set to control the Middle East
in the not-too-distant future, to the great peril of Israel and the West? Would we have ever heard of
the Palestinian Liberation Army, Hamas, Fatah, al Qaeda and their clones?
Or new Iran’s United Shia Liberation Army: The Persian foreign legion set to bring ‘freedom’
to the Middle East, or the newest Golan Liberation Brigade, setting its sites on Jerusalem.
Would we even have a need for a Middle Eastern peace process? But, the fact is, it was not to be,
and God does everything he wills in the kingdoms of men happen, and tells us before it come about.
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Commencing with its victories in the great sea battles against the Spanish and French in the 17th
and 18th centuries, Great Britain went on to literally rule the waves in the 19th and early 20th
centuries by virtue of its possession of every major sea gate on the planet. from out of nothing.
By the end of the 20th century, apart from Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, Britain had lost control
of those vital sea gates. Yet the greatest strategic loss, not only to Britain, but to the rest of the free
world, was the loss of the Suez Canal. With that loss came the loss of any prospect of peace in M. E.
Both of those prophecies have been fulfilled. the propose of the continuing conflicts we see.
Thus it was that America gave away its greatest sea gate, the Panama Canal, almost half a century
following its failure to help secure Suez. The U.S., and indeed the whole world, will live to regret
those two great foreign-policy tragedies. the consequence of error of judgment to come.
The failure to learn from the Suez blunder led to the Panama debacle. The loss of that sovereign
American territory is bound to have consequences similar to those of Suez in the near future.
We forget that victory in every war goes to the side that commits fewer mistakes
—and learns more from them in less time—not to the side that makes no mistakes.
A perfect military in a flawless war never existed—though after Grenada and the air
war over the Balkans we apparently thought otherwise.
We go on making the same old mistakes, condemning our enemies on the one hand,
appeasing them on the other. Will we ever learn the way to peace? The heartbreak
of seeing our free nations descend into unspeakable conditions at the hands of the enemy.
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G.B.
The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities
as people in every nation. And their governments [should listen] to their hopes." -nope
"Ours is a war not against a religion, not against the Muslim faith [or the quiet people].
But ours is a war against individuals [countrys]who absolutely[hate] what America [stands for]
And therefore, we must work together to defend ourselves.
And by remaining strong and united and tough, we'll prevail.
