Tony Blair now tells the world\u00a0that Western \u201cinaction\u201d in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis.<\/p>\n
But since bombing Syria would have brought to power in Damascus the very Islamists who are now threatening Baghdad, it must therefore be only a mad person\u00a0who considers his views.<\/p>\n
President Obama certainly did not wince. He announced on Monday that US ground troops ‘equipped for combat’ are being sent to Iraq \u2013 just days after claiming that no American soldiers would be deployed to the war-ravaged\u00a0country.<\/p>\n
In a letter to Congress, the president said American troops will be returning to Iraq only three years after they left and their deployment began on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The president told Congress that American military personnel in Baghdad will be ‘equipped for combat.’<\/p>\n
It is instructive to contemplate what Blair\u2019s rebel friends\u00a0in Syria are up to.<\/p>\n
Assad\u2019s enemies are the same Nusra and al-Qaida fighters whom Blair\u2019s bombing of Damascus would have helped and who now threaten Iraq\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n
Not to mention the recent attacks in Kenia.<\/p>\n
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday blasted former President George W. Bush for selling Americans the Iraq invasion, which led to the violence that is currently sweeping across the country.<\/p>\n
During his Monday broadcast, a viewer asked Robertson if there was a solution to the ongoing violence caused by an al Qaeda splinter group, ISIS, threatening to take over Iraq.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, what we did \u2014 and it was a great mistake to go in there,\u201d Robertson explained, pointing out that Saddam Hussein\u2019s \u201cbomb maker\u201d had said that the then-dictator \u201cdoesn\u2019t know how to make an atomic bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n
And so to sell the American people on weapons of mass destruction, he had WMD and was getting [concentrated uranium] yellowcake out of Africa and all of that, it was a lot of nonsense,\u201d the TV preacher said. \u201cWe were sold a bill of goods, we should never have gone into that country!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs bad as Saddam Hussein was, he held those warring factions in check, and he contained those radical Islamists,\u201d he continued. \u201cFix it, no? It\u2019s too late to fix it. It\u2019s unfixable. Those simmering animosities have been there for centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most people outside the US knew this before the ill-fated invasion.<\/p>\n
The sudden implosion of the vast Iraqi Army of the Baghdad Puppet Regime constructed by the US is a\u00a0timely\u00a0warning of the fates of the other puppet states in the Muslim World: Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE and lesser ones.<\/p>\n
The whole Muslim World of one and a half billion people have turned overwhelmingly against the US and support guerrilla groups against the US.<\/p>\n
Pakistan, a huge nuclear state with about 150 millon people quickly went from pro-US to fiercely anti-US over the annihilation of Afghanistan and the systematic drone attacks on Pakistani civilians.<\/p>\n
Clearly American politicians understand money and funding, but have no grasp on geography or identity.<\/p>\n
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