The US has had its eyes on the Middle East for decades…….and its policies turned sour after they decided that Israel should be recognized after the announcement by the Jews.
Of course the necessity for oil also has the US struggling to keep oil producers like Saudi Arabia, UAE and others in their pockets.
Nothing undermines the American belief in military force. No matter how often its galloping about results in resentment and mayhem, the U.S. gets up again to do good elsewhere.
The conviction that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche. Like the poet Stevie Smith’s cat, the United States “likes to gallop about doing good.” The cat attacks and misses, sometimes injuring itself, but does not give up. It asks, as the U.S. should,
Source: Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
An interesting piece……the US has been massaging the “rulers” of the various countries since the beginning of the Cold War…..actually longer but that would require me to go into a long historical perspective and we all would rather I not do that, right?
” In Historical Events Great Men -So-Called- are but labels serving to give a name to the event,and like Labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.
Every action of theirs,that seem to them an act of their own freedom,is in the historical sense not free at all but bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity”
Tolstoy..’War & Peace’ 1886.
Good post!
Thanx
Glad you liked it….
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TY my friend…chuq
I heard the other day that Amerca will always do the right thing; after it has exhausted every other posibility first.
WE will see…..who said that Kissinger, LOL
No, It was Churchil.
If the Middle East didn’t have oil, nobody would give a flying fuck about the place….other than the foreskin-free crowd and some delusional end-times Christians.
The history interests me….but other than that ….