Obviously it's not a religious war or Obama and Bush would have been struck by lightning for doing business with the Saudis. It's not a war of any kind as anything declared by the White House is more a whim than a war. A real war can only declared by Congress and that hasn't happened since WWII.
The trouble with the White House whims is they're always right wing whims. When, as often happens, the U.S. interferes in the sovereign affairs of another country, it is invariably to try to shift it to the right, never to the left. Either that's done militarily in some third-world country or financially in a developed nation and the consequence in both cases is the same, to shift the government to the right. You can see the result around the world in which there has been a pronounced global shift to the right over the last fifty to sixty years, a very large part of which has been driven by the U.S.
The blather about Democrats and Republicans is irrelevant when Presidents from both parties behave in exactly the same way. Since the sixties both have been trying to force Cuba out of Communism as if it matters one tinker's damn what kind of government Cuba has got.
The Middle East chaos gets more ludicrous every day as Hezbollah is comprised of Shi'a Muslims and they want to hammer Israel so Iran supports the Shi'a cause but Saudis do not because they back Sunni Muslims. The Saudis have much more fun supporting ISIS and al Qaeda which now creates the novel situation of Hezbollah fighting ISIS.
So Obama is right that he's not fighting a religious war as it's more of a civil war within a religion and he has been clever enough to choose sides. That, naturally, has always gone well in history.
And here's the beauty part: he's going to send troops. Just as with Bush, he has no idea why or what they will do if there is any success, assuming someone knows what success means, but he will send them ... and accomplish just as much as George Bush. Who knows, maybe Clint Eastwood will make another worthless movie.
The trouble with the White House whims is they're always right wing whims. When, as often happens, the U.S. interferes in the sovereign affairs of another country, it is invariably to try to shift it to the right, never to the left. Either that's done militarily in some third-world country or financially in a developed nation and the consequence in both cases is the same, to shift the government to the right. You can see the result around the world in which there has been a pronounced global shift to the right over the last fifty to sixty years, a very large part of which has been driven by the U.S.
The blather about Democrats and Republicans is irrelevant when Presidents from both parties behave in exactly the same way. Since the sixties both have been trying to force Cuba out of Communism as if it matters one tinker's damn what kind of government Cuba has got.
The Middle East chaos gets more ludicrous every day as Hezbollah is comprised of Shi'a Muslims and they want to hammer Israel so Iran supports the Shi'a cause but Saudis do not because they back Sunni Muslims. The Saudis have much more fun supporting ISIS and al Qaeda which now creates the novel situation of Hezbollah fighting ISIS.
So Obama is right that he's not fighting a religious war as it's more of a civil war within a religion and he has been clever enough to choose sides. That, naturally, has always gone well in history.
And here's the beauty part: he's going to send troops. Just as with Bush, he has no idea why or what they will do if there is any success, assuming someone knows what success means, but he will send them ... and accomplish just as much as George Bush. Who knows, maybe Clint Eastwood will make another worthless movie.
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