« "Golden lads and girls all must,: As chimney-sweepers, come to dust." | Main | My ideal elementary-school curriculum »
June 18, 2014
Americans are missionaries, not imperial mandarins.
America cannot ignore the Middle East
because it has critical interests in the region, including the free flow of hydrocarbons, but it cannot fix it. It tried to fix Libya, and traded the nasty regime of Muammar Gaddafi for a Petrie Dish of jihadist militias; it tried to fix Egypt, and traded the miserable regime of Hosni Mubarak for the Muslim Brotherhood, and the inevitable return of military rule in the face of the twin threats of terror and starvation; it did not even try to fix Syria, which has collapsed into sectarian division. It spent US$1 trillion, 5,000 dead, 50,000 wounded, and several million disrupted American lives trying to fix Iraq and Afghanistan.Spengler ｻ America Wants the Impossible and Gets the Unmentionable
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 18, 2014 12:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.