Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Posted on 04/03/2015 5:13:18 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76
Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church
"Only after the ISIS militants began terrible mass executions of Christians the world community began speaking about this problem out loud. It happened only after the number of Christians in Iraq decreased by times and almost no Christians remained in Lybia and after the Christian community in Egypt had a hard time. The world community has at last begun speaking out against the background of general instability and uncertainty, against the background of the Arab Spring developments, against the background of what is going on now in Syria, where militants in the occupied territories are systematically eliminating Christians and Christian shrines.
The question arises inevitably here: why the so-called Christian West, at least in the eyes of many Muslims, supports these destructive forces and the so-called opposition in Syria? Why did the West support and actually initiate the overthrow of the regime in Iraq? Yes, we understand that the regime that existed in Iraq could be viewed differently and could hardly be regarded as model. But when a regime that somehow or other keeps the whole country from a disaster is overthrown an utter chaos comes in and a civil war begins, for the overthrow of a dictatorship does not at all mean that it will be surely replaced by a democracy. And those who did it now wash their hands saying: We have nothing to do with this; we have done our work; now let them themselves sort it all out. And how they can sort it all out on their own when the whole infrastructure of the country, political and economic, is destroyed and the interreligious and inter-ethnic balances, which existed for centuries, are violated?"
Another of Saddam Hussein’s little helpers was a radical leftist priest by the name of Father Jean Benjamin, also paid with oil vouchers and privy according to his own admission, as reported in Zenit, to prior knowledge of the 9/11 strikes on the US.
It was in a 2005 book by NYT reporter James Risen, the same reporter spied on by the Obama regime.
In 2003, “George Herbert Walker Bush was disturbed that his son was allowing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a cadre of neoconservative ideologues to exert broad influence over foreign policy.”
Bush Sr. was perturbed because Bush Jr. was ignoring Colin Powell’s advice. At that time, Colin Powell was against taking out Saddam Hussein because Saddam was the one man so feared by the factions that he was able to keep them in tow and avert chaos. In the first war, Bush Sr. wisely stopped short of taking out Saddam out for this reason.
In that conversation, George W. Bush “angrily hung up the telephone on his father.”
“There never was a formal meeting of all the president’s senior advisors to debate and decide whether to invade Iraq, according to a senior administration source. And the most fateful decision of the post invasion period — the move by proconsul L. Paul Bremer to disband the Iraqi army — may have been made without President Bush’s advance knowledge, according to a senior White House source.”
Risen says the decision “almost certainly coordinated with Rumsfeld,” and contradicted recommendations by an interagency group chaired by the National Security Council.
I quite well remember the broad regret among many military analysts for the failure of GHWB ‘41 pulling up short and not going all the way into Baghdad to take out Saddam.
W. went all the way in and did the deed. He hoped for democracy and he tended the ground he took, by keeping in constant contact with the newly and democratically installed president Karzai. Obama never spoke to the man. Obama pulled up his pen and his phone, pulled out our military and the place went from quiet to on fire.
Even with good intentions, it’s delusional to think that democracy can be imposed much less work among people still embittered by the Crusades and with no historical tradition of democratic rule and individual freedom. It’s a fantasy irrespective of the intentions. Iraq was bound to revert to type.
No, I think you should get the Zot because you’re plastering in Russian agitprop.
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