Here we go again. America is in a recession and our bank is busted - yet we've AGAIN taken over our self imposed role as fixer of someone else's (expensive) problems. I had a bad feeling about our "first strike" concept when Bush Jr. sent our military to Iraq. I had a worse feeling when that war grew to include Afghanistan. Then Pakistan. Now Libya.
As far as I can figure it, none of these sand pit nations has ever been a serious threat to America. About the only thing we've been interested in from these far off civilization misfits - is OIL.
If each one of these miserable and backward places stopped supplying a significant percentage of our oil supply - we'd have a reason to be dissed - but not a reason to go to war. Hussein can rattle our cage and disrupt area stability, but he could actually threaten only our interest in Israel and to stop selling us oil. So we went in with bombs.
Afghanistan has never been a real national entity. It's always been a collection of impoverished tribes temporarily held together by the most brutal, usually corrupt, and despotic leaders available. The nation's only claim to fame is that they could sell a lot of heroin. How do they threaten us or anyone else? Oh yeah, the Taliban ruled there for a while. (Bad Guys). Then the Al Queda Terrorists moved in and hid there for a while. (More Bad Guys) Then both the Taliban and Al Queda moved in with our allies (ho ho ho) in Pakistan. Now, Pakistan could actually do some damage to somebody - including America - but they are our pals so we have to cherry pick their people to remove the Taliban guys and the Al Queda guys without harming the "yankee go home" Pakistanis. This is the most ridiculous, most expensive, most lacking in public support, and most un-winnable WAR we've ever been in. Why us? Who is helping us? In waging this miserable war we also have the weakest coalition of non-existent and ineffectual allies ever pasted together. So now we bomb Libya.
What are we thinking?
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