Greetings Readers,
On a growing number of occasions the past three decades I have come to the conclusion America increasingly shoots itself in the foot as many of you have also discovered. It puzzles me. Is it due to hubris, arrogance, exceptionalism, incompetence, greed, not knowing basic history, or some sinister hidden conspiratorial motive? We over reach and over extend our influence blindly without proper analysis
As an example, I have researched more that a few volumes and articles that report our ex-President George W. Bush did not realize nor understand the implication Iraq had three large quarreling geopolitical factions, ethnic and religious, existing within the country until a few weeks prior the March 2003 invasion. Bush believed Iraqis were all Iraqis and lumped them together. How wrong-headed he and his underlings were. Today there is a danger of Iraq tearing itself into a Shiite south, a Sunnis central, and…
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