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Fri 3 Nov, 2006 01:59 pm
What gets me is Iran's lack of gratitude despite all we've done for them. We got rid of their hated enemy, the Taliban, at least temporarily. We got rid of another hated enemy, Sadamm Hussein. We got rid of the hated Sunni and put the Shiites in power, at least made it possible. We got rid of another serious threat, George Bush and the U.S. Before getting bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is a good possibility that Bush would have invaded Iran or at least threatened to, especially since they were determined to go with their nuclear program. The threat itself may have been enough to deter Iran.
Now there are two Shiite-controlled countries and maybe a third, Lebanon.
I guess the question is whether Iran influenced or even malipulated Bush through Chalabi to invade Iraq.
Yeah, huh?
It's just that we didn't do all these things for their benefit, we did them for our benefit. The thing is we botched things up in a way that the end results are tending to benefit Iran.
Would you be grateful towards an enemy that through their own incompetence and your manipulations acts in ways that ultimately benefit you? I would think derisive contempt would be a more appropriate state of sensibility.
The point is that Bush's policies in Afghanistan and Iraq benefitted Iran to no end and hurt the U.S.'s influence in the Middle East. There is also a strong possibility that Iran manipulited Bush through Chalabi. Iran has a right to feel smug and secretely grateful for Bush's incompetence.
Nobody expected Bush's strong point to be foreign policy, but the results of his complete bungling in the Middle East won't be resolved until the next administration, if then.
That is a rather tall order to place on the next administration.
Repubs controls the House and the Senate and still, Bush can't fix the problems he created.
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