ok, it's almost midnight, just finished catching up with all the posts, I thought it'd be nice to post a little history of our government's incredible foreign policy track record successes in the Muslim world...insults gladly accepted by PM, be considerate of fellow thread participants<g>
Syria, 1948 - The U.S. overthrows the regime; Syria turns anti-U.S.
Iran, 1954 - The U.S. overthrows nationalist Mossadegh, puts the shah
in power. Result: Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Egypt, 1955 - The U.S. tried to kill nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser. He
turns to the Soviets.
Iraq, 1958 - The U.S. puts Col. Kassem in power. He turns into an
anti-American lunatic.
Indonesia, 1967 - The U.S. overthrows Sukarno. The army and mobs
then kill 500,000 Sukarno supporters.
Libya, 1969 - The U.S. helps a young officer, Moammar Khadafy, seize
power in Libya, then tries to kill him in 1986.
Iraq, 1975 - The U.S. helps young Saddam Hussein seize power. In
1979, the U.S. encourages Saddam to invade Iran in an effort to crush
Iran's Islamic revolution. Some 700,000 die in the war.
Lebanon, 1983 - U.S. forces intervene in the civil war to prop up the
Christian government, 240 U.S. Marines die.
Kuwait/Iraq, 1991 - The U.S. goes to war against former ally Saddam,
but keeps him in power.
Somalia, 1992 - The U.S. intervenes in a civil war, loses men and flees.
Iraq, 1996 - A U.S. attempt to create a Kurd mini-state collapses under
Iraqi attack. CIA agents run for their lives.
Will Afghanistan keep the streak going (ahmm, with NA, Russians, Iran and Pakistan in the vicinity, what doyall think?<g>
Will peek in again tomorrow;)
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