Let’s see if I can get this straight: The Middle East has several groups of people who were forced into their current situation by Western Powers following the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire. National Borders were drawn up by Western Powers not for the benefit of the Indigenous Population but for the benefit of the Western Powers. People have been shuffled around with no regard to tribal tradition against their will and in some cases forced into desperate situations to suit the ideas of the Western Powers. Kings are established and overthrown according to the whims of the Western Powers. Governments are manipulated and dictated to from the Western Powers. An Iranian Prime Minister by the name of Mosaddegh is overthrown through the use of false reports and articles created by the CIA—turns out that the only crime of Mosaddegh was that he wanted to nationalize the oil industry and use the profits to build schools, hospitals, roads, and create jobs and a better world for the Iranians instead of seeing the money go to multi billionaires. Pahlavi is installed as the Shah of Iran by Western Powers. Seems that he willingly sells out his own people and allows the Western Powers do whatever they want to his country as long as the Western Powers supply him with money and pretty young girls. Pahlavi becomes a liability to the Western Powers and they decide to get rid of him. They do it by encouraging him to rule with an iron fist—Pahlavi was basically a pretty boy and not much else. At the same time, the Western Powers encourage the Kurds, a people who live in northwestern Iran and Iraq to break away and create their own nation. This rise in nationalism eventually forces Pahlavi out of office as he is exposed as incompetent. However, it creates numerous problems for Saddam Hussein as well. Hussein uses gas attacks to kill thousands of Kurds and others who desire their own nation. Big question, where did Hussein get the gas? People are forced off of their lands and out of their homes to make room for people who were forced out of their homes and off their lands. Following almost a century of violence, most people write it off as a violent land which has always been that way. People who have been forced into desperate situations are vilified for lashing out in desperation. One moment someone like Saddam Hussein is our fuzzy warm buddy, who President Reagan runs to defend when Iraq fires on the USS Stark just as our government defended Israel for the USS Liberty Incident about a decade and a half earlier. A group of desperate individuals mostly from Saudi Arabia commit 9/11 and we invade Afghanistan and Iraq to eliminate Hussein and the Taliban—both who have been helped by our government on numerous occasions. Osama bin Laden is assassinated with no desire to capture him—I guess that they had no desire for him to talk too much. We pull out of Iraq. Syria falls apart and we ship arms and aid to Syria and we are surprised when the violence spills over into Iraq. We attack the Isis fighters while still sending aid to Syria. Maybe it is time that our government and other Western Powers realize that they have no idea of what they are doing and need to stick to things that are their own business instead of messing around in matters that they seem to make only worse. I think it is high time that our government stopped acting like a bunch of high school students trying to form alliances and manipulate others and starts acting like a government.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:48:12 +0000
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