Originally posted by ThorOdinson13:
I'm sure I'm going to get blasted here because my foreign policy views are extremely unpopular on this board.
Bin Laden admitted that he knew the US could not be defeated militarily. So his goal was to bankrupt the US by making us chase terrorist all over the world. So, could this still be part of some grand plan? I suppose it could.
Is Arab boots on ground a fantasy? Hard to say man. The countries that could provide boots are fewer now than a decade ago. We are supporting the overthrow in Syria, which are rebels who are ISIS sympathizers. We supported the overthrow in Libya by what became ISIS sympathizers, same goes for Egypt who were of the same cloth. Iraq, no need to dive further. I guess Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia would be capable but SA has been calling for us to intervene.
The irony of this whole situation is that the US has played a major role in destabilizing the entire region by either supporting or actually removing stabilizing entities ourselves thereby opening the door for the tragedy currently taking place. All in the name of bringing democracy and stability to the region. Hell, the hate from Iran goes all the way back to our CIA overthrowing their government and placing the shah, who was brutal to the people. Something our CIA was quite proud of achieving as it was the first documented overthrow of a government by them.
So not only have we been a major contributor to destabilizing the region we are to blame for the current situation. The ethnic cleansing of Christians is occurring because we either removed a stabilizing force or we supported the overthrow of a stabilizing force e.g., Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya which had been religiously tolerant. Yes, even Iraq was tolerant, the Kurds rebelled after we enticed them to do so. They thought we would aid them, we didn't and they paid a dear price. We then assume that people there hate us because we exist, or because we are free, or because women have rights. They hate us because they think we are trying to annihilate them. Once you take off the blinders you see that Iran wanting nukes is not really all that irrational.
The question is what to do now. We created this situation through our meddling. But instead of people seeing the error of our ways we are blinded by the arrogance of being "exceptional" and other crap shoved down our throats in school, by media, politicians etc. we then resort to blaming party and whoever is currently president, finger pointing, and deflecting blame. We just can't seem to realize that neither party is really all that different in dealing with foreign policy. It's a sick cycle carousel IMO.
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