Sera, you won’t want to miss this July 6, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, News and politics.trackback
A timeline of the last sixty years if the rolls of the US and Iran were reversed.
It’s worth noting that the US bears a great deal of responsibility for the violence, fundamentalism and lack of stability in the Middle East. A few examples:
- We’ve supported dictatorships and corrupt rulers in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
- We’ve supported the Israeli governments strategy of keeping Palestinians poor, isolated and desperate.
- We trained bin Laden and supported the Taliban as a means of involving Russia in a quagmire of insurgency.*
- We supplied the weapons to run multiple wars in the region, including in Israel, Iraq/Iran and Afghanistan.
Simply put, we have fostered an environment of desperation. When people have nothing to lose, they are more likely to lash out, and far more likely to support those who lash out. Terrorism isn’t going away, but we have created an environment that could not have been better designed to foster it.
I’m still waiting to see all this covered on the nightly news.
*You’d think someone in the Bush administration would at least have noted this.
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