Here's another "I told you so" from this author an American, with my American point of view.
In recent conversations with people I kept saying something that has been mentioned in the media but with little emphasis. "
After the dictator whom-ever he/she is finally is gone will it be better?" Most likely not.
Look at Egypt... a real let down there. At least we didn't have troops on the ground etc.
The Libyan transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil ( On the left) said in a public speech in Libya that Islamic Sharia law is the "basic source" of legislation in the country from now on.![]() |
| Gaddafi before he was killed. Although he looks sort of pasty and dead already. |
Then he told the Libyans not to fire in the air but to shout God is Great - "Allahu Akbar".
This was followed by a demonstrative religious gesture of kneeling and praying for thanks to Allah for the success of the revolution.
I notice that he didn't offer a prayer of thanks to the, French, British, or USA without whom the revolution would not have even been a remote possibility. Now he is effectively spitting in our faces.
But we make nice to get the oil. OK.
But don't forget when sharia law comes down on their heads you had better not be working in that country or you could be stoned to death for some unimaginably insignificant action or lack of one.
Today, 10/23/2011 it was reported that Hamid Karzai stated that if there were an unlikely confrontation between Pakistan and USA, Karzai and Afghanistan would side with Pakistan against USA. Thanks a lot for 9 years our soldiers dying and of country building with billions and billions of dollars of our tax money spent to raise that country up from the stone age that the Taliban had brought it into.
Remember Mogadishu? We were trying to feed starving people and the Muslims were killing us as a thank you gesture.
Our foreign military involvements and generosity appear to be humanitarian and end up biting us on our asses in the end.
There is one case after another proving this point.
It's a damned shame that we can't be effective abroad. If the goal is to have more influence in other countries we are going about it the wrong way.
We should stay at home and worry about our own problems.
I could find a lot better ways to spend the money for sure.

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