This new American Century, kind of looks like the last century, Iraq very much being the equivalent of Vietnam (war) and the entire Middle East in flames is like...well, the insane first world war comes to mind. I have absolutely no trust in American foreign policy, none. I do have some regard for the intelligence of those perpetrating these wars, they pretend stupidity but in reality the Military Industrial Complex and its friends the Oil Complex have been doing great. 
Not that I would want to attend a friendship dinner with any of the leaders mentioned above. But George W. Bush destroyed the UN when he went into Iraq and it didn't stop or even really chastise him. That means that any leader can invade another country, if they come up with a really good rationalization. 
The genius of losing a war is that one isn't bogged down in state building, just planning more wars and need for planes and bombs. 
We lost in the Middle East or is it too soon to say that?  

Hugh Massengill, Eugene

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