I feel like you watched way too much “24”. These strikes are not about thwarting immediate terror threats, they are about serving US (corporate) “interests”
It always comes back to natural resources, generally oil. That’s not necessarily the reason for specific strikes, but they are always in service to developing or maintaining “cooperative” local governments.
What might really blow your mind is how culturally liberal much of the middle east used to be. Then came the global oil rush and the decision that reactionary theocratic governments were easier to control. Western intelligence agencies are largely responsible for the level of religious extremism and violence we see today. In fact, it worked so well that they decided to try it at home in America. That’s the short version of how we got exactly where we are today.
We can’t accuse Obama of doing the normal thing that America has always done without examples, but we can exonerate him of doing so on the basis that he was thwarting unidentified terror plots? You don’t think your showing a little bias?
Has Obama even made claims that any such terror plots existed? It’s also kind of funny that, with all these terror plots getting foiled on a nearly daily basis, we were still willing to leave Afghanistan. And then, miraculously, no terror plots happened despite us not sending in drones to stop them.
I feel like you watched way too much “24”. These strikes are not about thwarting immediate terror threats, they are about serving US (corporate) “interests”
Actually I found “24” too stressful and disturbing to watch.
What were the corporate interests in the strikes that Obama ordered?
It always comes back to natural resources, generally oil. That’s not necessarily the reason for specific strikes, but they are always in service to developing or maintaining “cooperative” local governments.
What might really blow your mind is how culturally liberal much of the middle east used to be. Then came the global oil rush and the decision that reactionary theocratic governments were easier to control. Western intelligence agencies are largely responsible for the level of religious extremism and violence we see today. In fact, it worked so well that they decided to try it at home in America. That’s the short version of how we got exactly where we are today.
Yes, but you’re speaking in generalities, mostly historic. I don’t think that’s fair to lump that all on Obama without specific examples.
We can’t accuse Obama of doing the normal thing that America has always done without examples, but we can exonerate him of doing so on the basis that he was thwarting unidentified terror plots? You don’t think your showing a little bias?
Has Obama even made claims that any such terror plots existed? It’s also kind of funny that, with all these terror plots getting foiled on a nearly daily basis, we were still willing to leave Afghanistan. And then, miraculously, no terror plots happened despite us not sending in drones to stop them.