Our involvement in the Middle East does not go back 100 years. Great talking point from the White House but not true. The British and French were the master's of the Middle East until after World War II. We got involved later.You just can't desist from lying. I'm pretty sure our existence has been longer than 100 years.
"the lesson the U.S. never seems to understand..." I think you mean that the lesson is what some people don't understand. People like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Carter clearly did not understand what would happen to Iran with his meddling, Clinton did not understand what he did by allowing Bin Laden to continue his planning instead of killing or capturing him, and Obama did not understand the opportunity present to him by the Arab Spring in Iran.
Our invasion (voted for by Hillary Clinton and supported by Bill, Kerry, Gore, and Edwards) did destablize Iraq and that is why Bush worked so hard on getting a representative government in place of Hussein. With some degree of success Bush did it. The finishing touch was left up to Obama and he (and Hillary and Biden) failed with the Status of Forces Agreement. Obama was given a working country in Iraq and a win for our military. Obama is doing his best to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots as early as the Barbary Wars in the first years of the U.S.'s existence
Other examples of cooperations between the U.S. and the Middle East are the Red Line Agreement signed in 1928
Perhaps if Bush had worked harder on intelligence, he wouldn't have needed to work so goddamn hard on Iraq afterwards. Your lament of his hard work to put in place a government, makes me fucking sick. He had no degree of success in doing that. Malaqi? Are you fucking kidding me. He was just biding his time until he could pass off that shit sandwich to the next guy. Don't kid yourself.