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Most of the recent problems in the Middle East can be directly linked to the Iraq War. Osama Bin Laden can be directly linked to CIA's action in Afghanistan tr
by wrong_variable 10y ago
Most of the recent problems in the Middle East can be directly linked to the Iraq War.
Osama Bin Laden can be directly linked to CIA's action in Afghanistan trying to defeat the Soviet and propping up the most repressive regime in the middle east ( Saudi Arabia ).
There has also being many instance of terrorist activity from sympathizer of the Palestine cause ( how would america like it if 8 million Muslims moved into Manhattan and resulting the displacement of most of New York's population ?)
I can go on ..
(overthrowing Iran's democratically elected leader )
(Selling weapons to Saddam in exchange for Oil, rather than help Iraq develop)
(Putting minority paranoid dictators in power so that they can be controlled)
(drone warfare in yemen, somalia)
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- mkohlmyr 10y agoI would perhaps argue that it has a whole lot to do with Sykes-Picot still too. While obviously the Iraq war is massively significant in terms of specific recent events, it is possible that we are biased to overestimate the effect our generations have on the overall trajectory of the region. Even if you want place blame more firmly in modern time it is perhaps more useful to attribute much of it to neo-conservative foreign policy as a whole rather than "the Iraq war" which is only one negative outcome of the former.