We’d all love to hear the plan
One more, then I’m done. (does that statement qualify me as a political junkie?)
It seems there is no lack of opinions on why Iraq was the wrong place to attack, or why we shouldn’t be attacking anyone. But nobody seems to offer any intelligent plans for solving the problem of terrorism in the world. In fact, the only “solutions” that I’ve heard offered are actually infantile.
- We’re to blame because of our interference in the Middle East
- Why didn’t we attack Saudi Arabia/Yemen/Algeria/Syria/Iran first? The terrorists were all from Saudi Arabia, you know
Simple answers to those criticisms - if “interference” in the area is the problem, then why wasn’t London hit first? After all, the Brits were there long before we were. And as far as why not Saudi Arabia first? Simple - they have nothing to attack except civilians, oil fields, and camels. How much of a message does THAT send?
Look, the simple answer is this: We are not to blame for this, any more than we are to blame for World War II. The terrorists declared war on Western Civilization back in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella kicked the Moors out of Europe. The particular extremist sect called Wahhabi, which originates in Saudi Arabia, has picked up on the mother of all grudges and decided to run with it.
So, we need to clean out these terrorists. How do we do this? We need the people in the countries where the terrorists currently roam free to actually care enough about their own hides to root out and destory the terrorists. When they are ruled by a thugocracy that gives free passage to terrorists and slaughters their own citizens (that would be Iraq), or a Mullarchy that actively supports and promotes terrorist goals, and slaughters its own citizens (Iran) you gotta clean them out. Nobody else in that region has a military or infrastructure that can really threaten anyone. We just happened to have a cease-fire in place with Iraq that they had been wantonly violating, so there was a ready-made excuse to blast them.
And from the way the winds are blowing, I see us fixin’ to flatten Iran next.
If the Saudis haven’t cleaned their room by then, then Uncle Sam’s probably going to have to clean it for them. And they won’t like it.
Before you start shouting “What about North Korea” - we have something in the Pacific Rim that we don’t have in the middle east - a nation with a vested interest in stopping North Korea from going nuclear. China will act long before we do if North Korea ever lights off a nuclear test. And it won’t be pretty. But then again, war never is.