You would think that the US would have learned their lesson with regime change…….Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria……none have gone according to plan and never will.
I wrote an article awhile back along these lines…..
The end result of this conflict in Syria is two-fold….one to rid the landscape of ISIS and two to rid the country of Assad, a regime change….. I understand the urgency of the defeat of …
Source: The Problem With Regime Change – In Saner Thought
The problem is that we keep using the same tactics over and over…tactics that worked in the 1950’s but today they are a waste of time……
“Regime change” or destabilizing sanctions are Official Washington’s policy options of choice in dealing with disfavored nations, but these aggressive strategies have proved harmful and counterproductive, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
Many variables are involved in the messy predicaments in the Middle East, but one way of framing the history and issues of U.S. policy toward the region is in terms of the approaches that have been taken toward so-called rogue regimes. That term, one should hasten to add, obscures more than it enlightens. But it has been in general use for a long time. Take it as shorthand to refer to regimes that have come to be considered especially troublesome and are subjected to some degree of ostracism and punishment.
Three basic approaches are available in formulating policy toward such a regime: (1) keep ostracizing and punishing it in perpetuity; (2) try to change the regime; or (3) negotiate and do business with it, to constrain it and to influence its actions. There are some contradictions between the approaches. Any regime that is led to believe that it is going to be overturned anyway, or that it will be perpetually punished anyway, lacks incentive to make concessions in a negotiation.
Source: The Fallacy of ‘Regime Change’ Strategies – Consortiumnews
How long will the idiots keep using flawed intel and a bigger flawed tactic before we realize that regime change is not our forte?
This election as important as it is holds NO answers to the problems we face….just more years of the status quo.
Stupidity….and that’s the name of that tune!
No one seems to get it that US enemies and all extremist regimes have ideologies and we would get results of we preached our own ideology: democracy and freedom from evil. For example seems Muslims treat their goats better than their women.
Good point…freedom maybe will fly but most of the countries have no idea what democracy is other than a word used in the news…they have NO democratic experience….and it is not working so well in Iraq…
Yes, true. But we could be planting the seeds to cultivate respect, tolerance, cooperation in ruling not by threat and fear and certainly not direct in nation building. The seeds must sprout on their own.
Again I agree…..just takes willing partners right now we have none of that….especially in countries with oil dollars…..