I don’t know about you, but I am tired of listening to George Bush and the various Senators & News types lie and obscure the truth of the matter.
Isn’t it time to call a spade a spade?
Jimmy Carter (a Democrat) should take the majority of blame for the current strive in the Middle East and the increased meddlingof the United States in the affairs of independent sovereign nations.
To begin with, it was Carter that made terrorists develop a mainstream side, while still maintaining their terror side. He gave credence to terrorists by recognizing Yassar Arafat as the legitimate voice of the Palestinian people and so made El Fatah appear normal. In reality they were then, and are today, terrorists no less repulsive than Al Quida, Hezbollah or Hamas.
It was Jimmy Carter who signalled America’s inability or lack of character in protecting its own citizens by his failed Rose Garden strategy in the Iran Hostage Crisis of his time. In fact, a crisis he spurred on by his insistance on forcing the then Shah to allow the religious clerics, the Ayotollahs, to promote their fundamentalism without restraint. Jimmy Carter forced those backwards thinkers on the people of Iran while it was the Shah who was slowly bringing Iran into the modern world. He (the Shah) also managed to curtail the more impulsive leaders of the region and so maintained some semblence of stability in the region.
All of that was tossed out when Jimmy Carter pushed for the return of the Ayotollah KHumeni.
You can buy the bullshit or look at the history of that region. The Russians took over Afghanistan and the American response? Boycott the Olympics. Like that was a real kicker in the Russian groin.
By not removing or being more forceful with Russia the Taliban gained dominance in Afghanistan and we all know how that is ending don’t we? America got 9/11 and Al Qieda and more bloodshed and war in Afghanistan.
Let’s not forget too that this policy of meddling started by Carter also led to the Iran Iraq war and the rise of Saadam Hussein as well, with more American meddling. I mean hell history is full of it, I mean America’s most hated enemy Fidel Castro was American trained and supported. We all know how that turned out don’t we?
Now we have Bush pushing for Democracy across the Middle East and you are all so surprised at the rise in violence in Iraq, and elsewhere? Come on, get a life and understand no one likes some outsider trying to push their lifestyle on them. Even if it is a better one.
I don’t know who will follow Bush in 2008 but in all honesty, I doubt if it will matter much. Least not until after WWIII comes and goes, and then, it just might be who is alive to give a rat’s ass.
Hell, just my warped opinion though.