Northwest Indiana Discussion

I get your point, but how often does our interference in the Middle East, come back to bite us in the ass in the future?

We interfered in Iranian affairs in the 50's just to have them blame us and turn on us in the 70's.
Then we propped up Saddam in the 80's to take on Iran just to have problems with him since the 90's.
We propped up Afghanistan against the Soviet Union just to have the Taliban turn on us.

If we prop up Mubarak, the people of Egypt will eventually take him down. Maybe not now. Maybe in 20 years, but guess who their going to blame for that? We don't need history to repeat itself.

Anti-American kids with all the answers just crack me up !!!
Translation: Muslim extremism is America's fault.
Typical.

Paul doesn't know the history of the Middle East anymore than you do

I get your point, but how often does our interference in the Middle East, come back to bite us in the ass in the future?
We interfered in Iranian affairs in the 50's just to have them blame us and turn on us in the 70's.
Then we propped up Saddam in the 80's to take on Iran just to have problems with him since the 90's.
We propped up Afghanistan against the Soviet Union just to have the Taliban turn on us.

OK...tell me where he is wrong in these three points.

The US didn't "interfered" or "propped up" anything.

In 1953, newly elected President Dwight Eisenhower feared that Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh’s actions reflected pro-communist sympathies. To block further Soviet influence in Iran, Eisenhower organized the overthrow of the democratically elected Mossadegh with the help of the British secret service. Operation Ajax – led by TR’s grandson Kermit Roosevelt – successfully removed Mossadegh from office and installed a pro-American leader, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – the “Shah.”

In March 1985, the Reagan administration issued National Security Decision Directive 166,29 a secret plan to escalate covert action in Afghanistan dramatically:
Abandoning a policy of simple harassment of Soviet occupiers, the Reagan team decided secretly to let loose on the Afghan battlefield an array of U.S. high technology and military expertise in an effort to hit and demoralize Soviet commanders and soldiers....

One of the first non-Afghan volunteers to join the ranks of the mujahideen was Osama bin Laden, a civil engineer and businessman from a wealthy construction family in Saudi Arabia, with close ties to members of the Saudi royal family. Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed close relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the CIA, raising money from private Saudi citizens.

The NYT "revealed" that in the 1980s, the administration of US President Ronald Reagan covertly provided "critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war".

http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/ask-gleaves
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afgha ... liban.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/dixon06172004.html

[url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/7/editorial-obama-proves-osama-was-right/]Obama proves Osama was right
When the chips are down, Barack abandons U.S. allies[/url]

The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America. The Times is considered to be a socially and politically conservative.

I get your point, but how often does our interference in the Middle East, come back to bite us in the ass in the future?

We interfered in Iranian affairs in the 50's just to have them blame us and turn on us in the 70's.
Then we propped up Saddam in the 80's to take on Iran just to have problems with him since the 90's.
We propped up Afghanistan against the Soviet Union just to have the Taliban turn on us.

If we prop up Mubarak, the people of Egypt will eventually take him down. Maybe not now. Maybe in 20 years, but guess who their going to blame for that? We don't need history to repeat itself.