Completely agree that dislodging dictators in M-E was the biggest blunder in American foreign policy, even bigger than starting a war in Vietnam, if that was possible. It shows me that people in charge of foreign policy are simply academics and do not understand mindset of Muslims in middle-east. Since I grew up in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in India close to Pakistan’s border, I was tearing my hair out when Bush-43 invaded Iraq to dis-lodge Saddam.
The chess players in Kremlin must have laughed their heads off when they saw that Americans were going to fight a war with guerilla style Viet-Cong fighters in rice paddies, with a 7000 miles long supply line distance, and direct the battles from Wasington, DC and not bomb supply lines in North Vietnam!
Academics....great point.
Isn’t interesting when you see some of the people that are touted out as advisers for this and that. Especially things like, National Security Adviser and a few other sensitive posts like that.
Fox has that redhead, good looking, that was apparently a National Security Adviser to someone, somewhere. Don’t know her name. I know nothing about her, her background, her education and she might be as sharp as they come and has been on the right side of everything since the day she walked thru the door. And I’m not trying to be a chauvinist, but........when I think of a National Security Adviser, I want Jack Bauer, Cofer Black(real CIA guy, BTW), Jason Bourne, Chesty Puller, Patton. I don’t want some Ivy League, over-educated person that doesn’t know which end of the gun the bullet comes out of. I know that there’s more to it, but it’d be nice to have someone in those positions that knows the difference between an M1 Abrams and a HumVee.
Look at Ben Rhodes...no experience in anything and there he is, advising obama on national security issues. He was a f*cking speechwriter.
Rhodes then spent five years as an assistant to Hamilton, helping to draft the Iraq Study Group Report and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
In 2007, Rhodes began working as a speechwriter for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.
Rhodes wrote Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech “A New Beginning”. Rhodes was the adviser who counseled Obama to withdraw support from Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, becoming a key adviser during the 2011 Arab Spring.
Boy, that Arab Spring thing sure did turn out ok, didn’t it? Good Lord!!!!!!